ChicagoThis week the Human Biology Association (HBA) and American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) hold their annual meetings together in Chicago. Both the AAPA program and the HBA program are available online (PDFs).

Our department will be well represented with a diverse set of papers. Here’s a sampling of what UF anthropologists will be presenting:

Daegling DJ and McGraw WL. Lever mechanics in the jaws of sympatric West African colobines: skull proportions do not invariably sort taxa by a criterion of dietary consistency.

Gravlee CC. Cultural meaning, social structure, and health in evolutionary perspective.

Hotzman JL and Daegling DJ. Palatal strain during catilever bending: a case study of Macaca fasicularis.

Kitchen A, Qui F, Miyamoto MM, and Mulligan CJ. A population genomic analysis of the peopling of the New World.

McGraw WS and Daegling DJ. Associations of gait, support use and limb morphology in West African colobines: the effects of bounding on locomotor biomechanics.

Miro AT, Kitchen A, Toups M, and Reed D. Coalescent simulations of human louse (Pediculus humanus) evolution reveal contact between archaic Homo species and modern humans.

Mulligan CJ, Non AL, and Gravlee CC. Culture matters: genes, environment, and complex disease.

Non AL. Mitochondrial DNA diversity of Yemenite and Ethiopian Jewish populations.

Rapoff AJ, McGraw WS, and Daegling DJ. Isostress analysis of maxillary canines in cercopithecoid monkeys.

Skorpinski KE and Falsetti AB. Variation and secular trends in linear measurements of the mandible.

Waxenbaum EB and Falsetti AB. Developmental and ecogeographic limb variation among the subadults of three Native American populations.

Patil CL and Young AG. Aversions and cravings, and symptoms of pregnancy experienced by women living in north-central Tanzania. (HBA)

Zukowski LA and Falsetti AB. Trends in lumbar vertebral body and lamina osteophytes.