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The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio-behavioral study of the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life-history evolution. One aim is to understand the bidirectional connections between life history and social behavior in a high-fertility, kin-based context lacking amenities of modern urban life (e.g. sanitation, banks, electricity). Another aim is to understand how a high pathogen burden influences health and well-being during development and adulthood. A third aim addresses how modernization shapes human life histories and sociality. Here we outline the project's goals, history, and main findings since its inception in 2002. We reflect on the implications of current findings and highlight the need for more coordinated ethnographic and biomedical study of contemporary nonindustrial populations to address broad questions that can situate evolutionary anthropology in a key position within the social and life sciences.

Source: Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

DOI: 10.1002/evan.21515

Authors: Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin Trumble, Aaron D. Blackwell, Bret Beheim, Helen Davis, Paul Hooper, Hillard Kaplan

Institutions: University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Arizona State University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Utah, Santa Fe Institute, University of New Mexico

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Health and Education

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $5,000

Funders: National Science Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, National Institutes of Health, University of California, Santa Barbara, National Institute on Aging

Awards: G120118695, Grandparenting and the Evolution of Post-Reproductive Lifespan, Superconvergence of p-version/spectral collocation, discontinuous Galerkin methods and eigenvalue approximation, Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Conflict and Cooperation in Nuclear and Extended Families Among the Tsimane' of Bolivia, Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Determinants and Consequences of Women's Fertility Preferences and Fertility in a Rapidly Acculturating Population, Brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's in a low CVD-risk population, Growth, Development, Aging, and Sociality Among the Tsimane of Bolivia, Institut for Advanced Study in Toulouse, G44564303, RAPID: Surviving the Flood: Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster, Dissertation Research: The Determinants and Outcomes of Male Social Status in a Rapidly Acculturating Amazonian Society, The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging, G9000080227, G9000114412

OpenAlex ID: W2606861939

FWCI: 24.78

Cites: 132

Cited by: 180

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