Notes on Contributors

C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim is Assistant Professor of Biology at California State University Northridge. His research uses genetic data from ancient and present-day humans to study local adaptation and resistance against pathogens. Recent research projects include the study of the peopling of the Andes and host-pathogen coevolution using ancient DNA.

Cynthia M. Beall is Distinguished University Professor and the S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. Her scientific focus is to understand human biological variation, past and present. Her research deals with the processes resulting in the different patterns of adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia on the three major plateaus. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

David R. Begun is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His main interests are the functional anatomy, phylogeny, and paleobiogeography of Miocene apes and the emergence of Pliocene hominins. He served as the co-editor of the Journal of Human Evolution. He is the author of The Real Planet of the Apes (2015) and the editor or co-editor of Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Origins and Adaptations (1997), Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Miocene Hominoid Locality of Çandır (2003), The Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence (2004), and A Companion to Paleoanthropology (2013).

Barry Bogin is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology of the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences at Loughborough University, the William E Stirton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and an active member of The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny. Bogin has expertise in human physical growth and development, nutritional ecology, evolutionary biology, Maya people, and human adaptation. The focus of his research is to explain how Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) forces influence human physical development. Among his publications are the books Patterns of Human Growth, 3rd edition (2021), Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, 2nd edition (2012), The Growth of Humanity (2001), and Human Variability and Plasticity (2005).

Jesper L. Boldsen is Professor of Forensic and Biological Anthropology and a faculty member in the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests are in the history of human health and human skeletal biology with a particular focus on age estimation, paleodemography, and paleoepidemiology. He is the founder and present head of the skeletal collection (ADBOU) at the University of Southern Denmark. He actively promotes trans-Atlantic scientific collaboration and has hosted many senior researchers and graduate students from North America and Europe. He is a former Vice President of the European Anthropological Association.

Anne V. Buchanan served a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. She has a long-standing interest in complex traits, including disease, and has worked on many projects in genetic epidemiology and developmental genetics.

Jane E. Buikstra is Regents’ Professor of Bioarchaeology and Founding Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the changing human condition over time, as documented through human remains recovered from archaeological contexts. She is a former president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists1 and the American Anthropological Association and is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the co-author of The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease (2003) and editor of Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (2019) and Ortner’s Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (2019).

Luis L. Cabo is the Director of the Forensic and Bioarchaeology Laboratory and serves as the Graduate Research Director at the Department of Applied Forensic Sciences at Mercyhurst University. With a background in zoology and systems biology, his interests span forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and human paleontology, with a focus on quantitative applications in taphonomy, evolutionary anatomy, and biological profile estimation methods.

Rachel Caspari is Professor of Anthropology at Central Michigan University. She has worked on fossil human remains from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Her research focusses on the role of changes in population structure and life history in the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition and the origin of modern Homo sapiens. She has a long-standing interest in the relationship between race and epistemology in paleoanthropology and is the co-author of Race and Human Evolution.

Mary E. Cole is a biological anthropologist and skeletal biologist in the Skeletal Biology Research Laboratory, Injury Biomechanics Research Center at Ohio State University’s College of Medicine. Her research interests pertain to the microstructural determinants of bone quality and strength. Her methodological focus is the development of new microscopic visualization techniques for bone tissue microstructure, especially bone loss. She has published in Interdisciplinary Reviews Forensic Science and The Anatomical Record.

Fabian Crespo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Louisville. He received his PhD in Biology from University of Buenos Aires and conducted his postdoctoral research in human immunology at the School of Medicine, University of Louisville. His research addresses the role of infectious diseases in shaping inflammatory responses and immune competence in humans. His reconstructions of past epidemics and pandemics in the context of complex biosocial landscapes combines experimental immunology, bioarchaeology, and history. His publications have appeared in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology2, International Journal of Paleopathology, and Centaurus: International Journal of the History of Science and Its Cultural Aspects.

Douglas E. Crews is Professor of Anthropology and Public Health at The Ohio State University. He is a biomedical anthropologist specializing in human adaptability, aging, senescence, stressor responses, and allostatic load and frailty among elders in Japan, Kuwait, American Samoa, and Poland. Recent publications have appeared in PLoS One, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, General and Comparative Endocrinology, and Stress. He co-edited Biological Anthropology and Aging: Perspectives on Human Variation over the Life Span (1994), co-authored Introduction to Biological Anthropology Laboratory Manual (2021), and authored Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives (2003).

Dennis C. Dirkmaat is Professor in the Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst University. He is a Diplomate in the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. In 2020, he received the first-awarded Outstanding Mentor Award from the Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Science. In 2021, he was awarded the section’s T. Dale Stewart Award for Lifetime Achievement in Forensic Anthropology. He serves as the national forensic anthropologist for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and as the forensic anthropologist for Singapore and Puerto Rico. Since 1986, Dirkmaat has conducted 1,000 forensic anthropology cases throughout the United States. He is the editor of A Companion to Forensic Anthropology (2012) and co-author of the chapter on forensic archaeological practices in the United States in Forensic Archaeology: A Global Perspective (2015).

Darna L. Dufour is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests focus on biocultural aspects of nutrition in contemporary human populations. She has completed long-term field projects in Latin America in both the Amazon region and urban environments. She is a co-author of Disasters in the Field: Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events and co-editor of Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition.

James H. Gosman is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. His research interests encompass skeletal biology and bioarchaeology. His publications and presentations focus on human trabecular bone growth and development related to locomotion. In a parallel career path, he serves as a consulting physician, being supported by an MD and Board Certification in Orthopedic Surgery. He currently serves as the co-director of the global health research arm of the nonprofit foundation, ConnectMed International.

Michael C. Granatosky is Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the New York Institute of Technology. His research interests pertain to functional morphology and evolutionary biomechanics with a focus on the origins and evolution of quadrupedal locomotion in primates and other animal...