Below you’ll find a list of every book, article, show, etc. recommended on the AnthroBiology Podcast organized chronologically by episode.

Ep. 1 – Dr. Bernard Wood (08 Jan 2020)

• What to read to learn more: Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Wood
• What he’s reading for work: The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
• What he’s reading for fun: Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes
• BONUS – What I was reading: On Call in the Arctic by Thomas J. Sims

Ep. 2 – Dr. Cynthia Wilczak (22 Jan 2020)

• What to read to learn more: Smithsonian Magazine or the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
• What she’s reading for work:
  • Milella, Marco & Alves Cardoso, Francisca & Assis, Sandra & Lopreno, Geneviève & Speith, Nivien. (2015). Exploring the Relationship Between Entheseal Changes and Physical Activity: A Multivariate Study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 156. 10.1002/ajpa.22640.
  • Karakostis, Fotios & Wallace, Ian & Konow, Nicolai & Harvati, Katerina. (2019). Experimental evidence that physical activity affects the multivariate associations among muscle attachments (entheses). 10.5061/dryad.ksn02v70p.
  • Karakostis, Fotios & Hotz, Gerhard & Tourloukis, Vangelis & Harvati, Katerina. (2018). Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances. 4. eaat2369. 10.1126/sciadv.aat2369.
  • Zumwalt, Ann. (2006). The Effect of Endurance Exercise on the Morphology of Muscle Attachment Sites. The Journal of experimental biology. 209. 444-54. 10.1242/jeb.02028.
• What she’s reading for fun: Calypso by David Sedaris

Ep. 3 – Dr. Stephanie Levy (05 Feb 2020)

• What to read to learn more: Levy Human Biology Lab page or
• What she’s reading for work: Levy, Stephanie & Klimova, Tatiana & Zakharova, Raisa & Federov, Afanasiy & Fedorova, Valentina & Baltakhinova, Marina & Leonard, William. (2018). Brown adipose tissue, energy expenditure, and biomarkers of cardio-metabolic health among the Yakut (Sakha) of northeastern Siberia. American Journal of Human Biology. 30. 10.1002/ajhb.23175. (Longer outline coming)
• What she’s watching for fun: Schitt’s Creek (Available on Netflix and Hulu)

Ep. 4 – Dr. Rachel Watkins (19 Feb 2020)

• What to read to learn more: The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• What she’s reading for work: Colleagues’ work
• What she’s reading for fun: There, There by Tommy Orange
• BONUS – Second fun book: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• BONUS – What I was reading: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• BONUS – Book mention: Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

Ep. 5 – Dr. Sara Juengst (04 Mar 2020)

• What to read to learn more and what she’s reading for work: The Body as Material Culture by Joanna Sofaer
• What she’s reading for fun: The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• BONUS – Second fun book: Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
• BONUS – What I was reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Ep. 6 – Dr. Scott Williams (18 Mar 2020)

• What to read to learn more: Close Encounters with Humankind by Sang-Hee Lee
• What he’s reading for work:
  • Haile-Selassie, Y., Melillo, S.M., Vazzana, A. et al. A 3.8-million-year-old hominin cranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia. Nature 573, 214–219 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1513-8
  • The Bone Readers: Science and Politics in Human Origins Research by Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie, and Cheryl Jones
• What he’s listening to for fun:
  • Revisionist History
  • We Hate Movies
  • Faculty of Horror
  • The Last Podcast on the Left
• BONUS – That Panda Book: The Giant Panda: A Morphological Study of Evolutionary Mechanisms by D. Dwight Davis
• BONUS – Book he recommended to me later: Strange Case of the Mad Professor: A True Tale Of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, And Attempted Murder by Peter Kobel

Ep. 7 – Dr. Carlina de la Cova (01 Apr 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples
  • George Armelagos
  • Debra L. Martin
• What she’s reading for work:
  • Students’ dissertations
  • Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed by Elizabeth Hallam
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Sherlock Holmes (All of them) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Homunculus by James P. Blaylock
  • Doctor Who

Ep. 8 – Dr. Katharine Jack (16 Apr 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Dr. Jack’s website
  • Primate Ethnographies edited by Karen Strier
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Articles on gas chromatography mass spectrometry
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

Ep. 9 – Dr. Bill Billeck (29 Apr 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Ousley, Stephen & Billeck, William & Hollinger, R. (2005). Federal Repatriation Legislation and the Role of Physical Anthropology in Repatriation. American journal of physical anthropology. Suppl 41. 2-32. 10.1002/ajpa.20354.
• What he’s reading for work right now: History of the Cree in Canada and the U.S.A.
• What he’s reading for fun: A book on training puppies

Ep. 10 – Dr. Sara Becker (13 May 2020)

• What to read to learn more: Stories from the Skeleton by Robert Jurmain
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • The Chumash World at European Contact by Lynn H. Gamble
  • Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America by Dale Hutchinson
• What she’s reading for fun: Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt

Ep. 11 – Dr. JOHN VERANO (27 May 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Archaeology Magazine
  • National Geographic
  • Paleopathology Association
  • Dr. Verano’s website
  • Join local archaeology clubs or check with local museums, groups, or universities to see if they’re looking for volunteers
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Anzellini, Armando & Toyne, Jennifer. (2019). Estimating the stature of ancient high‐altitude Andean populations from skeletal remains of the Chachapoya of Peru. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 171. 10.1002/ajpa.23977.
  • Proof pages of a book on an ancient Peruvian tomb
  • When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History by Matthew Restall
• What he’s reading for fun right now:
  • A book on efficiency
  • A book on meditation
  • All that Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black

A PAUSE TO HELP AND CHANGE (10 June 2020)

• Bias training & anti-racism
  • Being Antiracist
  • Project Implicit
  • Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work.
• How to help
  • Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)
  • For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
• Defund the police
  • How Much Do We Need the Police?
  • The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
  • What Exactly Does It Mean to Defund the Police?
  • Washington Post Police Shootings Database
  • Database of police violence videos (Google Sheet)
• Scientists and academia
  • 500 Women Scientists
  • Black biological anthropologists (Google Sheet)
  • White Academia: Do Better.
• Other
  • Black Lives Matter
  • A Decade of Watching Black People Die
  • 1619 Project from the New York Times
  • Black History Year from Pushblack
  • Anti-Racism Resources
• Organizations
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
  • Chicago Community Bond Fund
  • ACLU
  • Reclaim the Block
  • National Black Justice Coalition

EP. 12 – DR. David Raichlen (25 JUNE 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Raichlen, David & Alexcander, Gene A. (2020). Why your brain needs exercise: The evolutionary history of humans explains why physical activity is important for brain health. Scientific American. 322, 1.
  • Scientific American articles by Herman Pontzer
  • The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Reading outside of anthropology to get new ideas
  • The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind by Jonah Berger
• What he’s consuming for fun right now:
  • Better Call Saul
  • The New Yorker
• BONUS – What I was reading:
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

EP. 13 – DR. DANIEL LIEBERMAN (08 JULY 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • The Evolution of the Human Head by Daniel Lieberman
  • The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
  • Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
  • Daniel Lieberman’s website
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Effects of physical activity on morbidity and mortality
  • Inflammation
  • Epidemiology
  • Locomotor biomechanics
  • Effects of exercise and metabolism
• What he’s consuming for fun right now:
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
  • The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies

Ep. 14 – Dr. Tanya Smith (23 July 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior by Tanya Smith
  • What teeth can tell about the lives and environments of ancient humans and Neanderthals by Tanya Smith at The Conversation
  • Dr. Tanya M. Smith’s website
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Ancient environments in east Africa
  • Climate reconstruction via chemical changes in teeth
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • An Interrupted Life by Etty Hillesum
  • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
• BONUS – What I was reading:
  • The History of White People by Nell Ervin Painter
  • Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo

Ep. 15 – Mr. Chris Webster (06 August 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • CRM Archaeology Podcast
  • ArchaeoTech Podcast
  • Field Archaeologist’s Survival Guide: Getting a Job and Working in Cultural Resource Management by Chris Webster
• What he’s reading for work:
  • Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past by Mark McCoy
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • YouTube channels on RV life

Ep. 16 – Ms. Jill McCormick (22 August 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Consultation and Cultural Heritage: Let Us Reason Together by Claudia Nissley and Thomas King
  • Thomas King’s books on CRM
  • Many Nations Under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sacred Sites by Todd Allin Morman
• What she’s reading for work:
  • CEQA and NEPA reports
  • Ceramics
  • The Federal Register
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • WNBA Phoenix Mercury games

Ep. 17 – Mr. Chris Aris (30 September 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Aris, Christopher. (2020). The Histological Paradox: Methodology and Efficacy of Dental Sectioning. 29. 10.14324/111.2041-9015.011.
• What he’s reading for work:
  • Module outlines for the courses he’s teaching in a few weeks
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Saga

Ep. 18 – Dr. Barbara J. King (16 October 2020)

• What to read to learn more:
  • How Animals Grieve by Barbara J. King
  • TED Talk: Grief and Love in the Animal Kingdom by Barbara J. King
  • Dr. King’s website
  • Dr. King’s twitter
• What she’s reading for work:
  • The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past by Meave Leakey
  • Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
  • Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Star Trek (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
  • Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
  • Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• BONUSworks mentioned:
  • Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat by Barbara J. King
  • The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
  • Forthcoming March 2021: Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and the Wild by Barbara J. King
  • Sapiens articles by Barbara J. King
  • The Reducetarian Solution by Brian Kateman

Ep. 19 – DR. SEAN TALLMAN (28 JANUARY 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Dr. William R. Maples and Michael Browning
  • Sex Estimation of the Human Skeleton: History, Methods, and Emerging Techniques by Dr. Alexandra Klales
  • Opinion: The Forensic Sciences Have a Diversity, Inclusion Problem by Dr. Sean Tallman
  • Tallman, Sean & Bird, Cate. (2020). Diversity and Inclusion in Forensic Anthropology: Where We Stand and Prospects for the Future. 10.5744/fa.2020.3001.
• What he’s reading for work:
  • A colleague’s case report
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Fargo (TV series)
  • My Favorite Murder (Podcast)
  • I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• Other:
  • CDC: The Tuskegee Study
  • Kilroy, Grace & Tallman, Sean & DiGangi, Elizabeth. (2020). Secular change in morphological cranial and mandibular trait frequencies in European Americans born 1824–1987. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 173. 10.1002/ajpa.24115.
  • Atkinson, Megan & Tallman, Sean. (2020). Nonmetric Cranial Trait Variation and Ancestry Estimation in Asian and Asian‐Derived Groups. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 65. 692-706. 10.1111/1556-4029.14234.
  • Tallman, Sean & Blanton, Amelia. (2020). Distal Humerus Morphological Variation and Sex Estimation in Modern Thai Individuals. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 65. 361-371. 10.1111/1556-4029.14218.
  • Patterson, Meredith & Tallman, Sean. (2019). Cranial and Postcranial Metric Sex Estimation in Modern Thai and Ancient Native American Individuals. 2. 233-252. 10.5744/fa.2019.1009.

EP 20 – DR. ERIC BARTELINK (11 FEBRUARY 2021)

• What you can read to learn more:
  • Bartelink EJ, Chesson LA. Recent applications of isotope analysis to forensic anthropology. Forensic Sci Res. 2019;4(1):29-44. Published 2019 Feb 17. doi:10.1080/20961790.2018.1549527
  • Ed. Chesson LA, Carter JF. Food Forensics: Stable Isotopes as a Guide to Authenticity and Origin. Routledge: 2017.
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Kelley RL. The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future. University of California Press: 2019.
  • Marra JF. Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science. Columbia University Press: 2019.
• What he’s consuming for fun: Dark, Netflix.

EP 21 – DR. NATHAN YOUNG (24 FEBRUARY 2021)

• What you can read to learn more:
  • Carroll, SB. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-Devo. WWNorton: 2005.
  • Shubin, N. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5.-Billion-Year-Journey History of the Human Body. Penguin-Random House: 2009.
  • Lieberman, D. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. Penguin-Random House: 2014.
• What he’s reading for work:
  • Technical papers for a grant
  • Jablonkski paper. Here’s his site with a TON of PDFs. It’s worth spending some time there.
  • Jablonski, David. (2019). Developmental bias, macroevolution, and the fossil record. Evolution & Development. 22. 10.1111/ede.12313.
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Banks, IM. Player of Games. Hachette: 1988.
• References:
  • Leakey Foundation. Science Speakeasy: Nathan Young | On the Shoulders of Apes. YouTube. 2018.
  • Young, Nathan. (2017). Integrating “Evo” and “Devo”: The Limb as Model Structure. Integrative and comparative biology. 57. 10.1093/icb/icx115.
  • Green, Rebecca & Fish, Jennifer & Young, Nathan & Smith, Francis & Roberts, Benjamin & Dolan, Katie & Choi, Irene & Leach, Courtney & Gordon, Paul & Cheverud, James & Roseman, Charles & Williams, Trevor & Marcucio, Ralph & Hallgrimsson, Benedikt. (2017). Developmental nonlinearity drives phenotypic robustness. Nature Communications. 8. 10.1038/s41467-017-02037-7.
  • Young, Nathan & Linde-Medina, Marta & Fondon, John & Hallgrimsson, Benedikt & Marcucio, Ralph. (2017). Craniofacial diversification in the domestic pigeon and the evolution of the avian skull. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1. 0095. 10.1038/s41559-017-0095.
  • Young, Nathan & Capellini, Terence & Roach, Neil & Alemseged, Zeresenay. (2015). Fossil hominin shoulders support an African ape-like last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112. 10.1073/pnas.1511220112.
  • Young, Nathan & Winslow, Benjamin & Takkellapati, Sowmya & Kavanagh, Kathryn. (2015). Shared rules of development predict patterns of evolution in vertebrate segmentation. Nature Communications. 6. 10.1038/ncomms7690.
  • Zaid, Musa & Young, Nathan & Pedoia, Valentina & Feeley, Brian & Ma, Chunbong & Lansdown, Drew. (2019). Anatomic shoulder parameters and their relationship to the presence of degenerative rotator cuff tears and glenohumeral osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 28. 10.1016/j.jse.2019.05.008.
  • Hallgrimsson, Benedikt & Katz, David & Aponte, Jose & Larson, Jacinda & Devine, Jay & Gonzalez, Paula & Young, Nathan & Roseman, Charles & Marcucio, Ralph. (2019). Integration and the Developmental Genetics of Allometry. Integrative and comparative biology. 59. 10.1093/icb/icz105.

EP 22 – DR. JANNA ANDRONOWSKI (10 MARCH 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Bone Histology: An Anthropological Perspective by Christian Crowder and Sam Stout
  • Dr. Andronowski’s Faculty Page at Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Andronowski Lab Website
  • Dr. Andronowski on Twitter
  • American Board of Forensic Anthropology 
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences 
  • Andronowski Skeletal Collection for Histological Research
  • University of Tennessee Knoxville Forensic Anthropology Center
  • Biological Anthropology and Human Anatomy Student Organization on Twitter
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences 73^rd Annual Scientific Meeting 2021, Andronowski Lab Poster Presentations
  • Canadian Light Source 
  • Ellis R Kerley Foundation
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • A selection of new papers on arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• What she’s consuming for fun: Newfoundland’s east coast trail system

EP 23 – DR. CARA OCOBOCK (24 MARCH 2021)

• What you can read to learn more:
  • Cara Ocobock’s website
  • Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
  • Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
  • Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Herman Pontzer
  • On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction by Peter Ellison
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
  • Woman the Gatherer edited by Frances Dahlberg
  • Anthropology of sports literature
  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder

EP 24 – DR. HERMAN PONTZER (09 APRIL 2021)

• What you can read to learn more:
  • Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Herman Pontzer (Penguin Random House, 2021)
  • Articles by Herman Pontzer (ctrl+F Publications, click on plus sign)
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine by Jeremy Taylor (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
  • The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (Penguin Random House, 2021)
  • Energy expenditure scholarly literature
• What he’s consuming for fun right now: Trails around his house

EP 25 – DR. TARA CEPON-ROBINS (22 APRIL 2021)

• What you should read to learn more:
  • Dr. Tara Cepon-Robins’ website
  • Miłkowska K, Galbarczyk A, Mijas M, Jasienska G. Disgust Sensitivity Among Women During the COVID-19 Outbreak. Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 23;12:622634. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622634. PMID: 33833715; PMCID: PMC8021948.
  • Riddled With Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are by Marlene Zuk (Harper Collins, 2008)
  • Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests by Rosemary Drisdelle (University of California Press, 2010)
  • Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures by Carl Zimmer (Atria Books, 2001)
  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong (Harper Collins, 2018)
  • This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe (Mariner Books, 2017)
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth by Peter Hotez (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Whatever free mystery-thriller from Kindle with decent reviews
  • Dark (link goes to Netflix)

EP 26 – DR. DIGANGI & DR. BETHARD (11 MAY 2021)

• What you should read to learn more:
  • DiGangi, EA, Bethard, JD. Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021; 175: 422– 436. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24212
  • Bethard, J.D. and DiGangi, E.A. (2020), Letter to the Editor—Moving Beyond a Lost Cause: Forensic Anthropology and Ancestry Estimates in the United States. J Forensic Sci, 65: 1791-1792. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14513
  • Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from an Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (Penguin Random House, 1999)
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Penguin Random House, 2014)
• What they’re reading for work right now:
  • DiGangi:
    • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press, 2018)
    • How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World, 2019)
  • Bethard:
    • Blakey, Michael. (2020). Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race. Current Anthropology. 61. S183-S197. 10.1086/710357.
    • Dr. Rachel Watkins (creation of race in the US)
    • Link to Dr. Rachel Watkins’ AnthroBiology episode
    • Dr. Carlina de la Cova (history of collections)
    • Link to Dr. Carlina de la Cova’s AnthroBiology episode
• What they’re consuming for fun right now:
  • DiGangi:
    • Beekeeping literature
    • Gardening
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (full text) by Frederick Douglas
  • Bethard:
    • Here to Slay (Now the Roxane Gay Agenda) (link to Apple Podcasts)
    • Schitt’s Creek (opens in Netflix)

EP 27 – DR. ROBERT MANN (11 AUGUST 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World’s Toughest Cases by Dr. Robert Mann and Miryam Williamson (Ballantine, 2007)
  • Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains by Dr. Douglas Ubelaker and Dr. Jane Buikstra (University of Arkansas, 1994)
  • Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual by Dr. William H. Bass (Missouri Archaeological Society, 1971)
  • Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Dr. William Maples and Michael Browning (Crown Publishing, 1995)
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Costoclavicular ligament literature (specifically embryology)
  • Reading manuscripts
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Seinfeld (Opens in Netflix)
  • The Office (Opens Peacock TV)
  • Playing the guitar and writing songs

EP 28 – MS. STINE CARLSSON (26 AUGUST 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton by Clark Spencer Larsen (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Dr. Daniel Temple’s work on the osteological paradox
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Site reports
  • Radiocarbon analysis literature
  • Life and death in medieval Gaelic Ireland: the skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal by Dr. Catriona McKenzie and Dr. Eileen Murphy (Four Courts Press, 2020)
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • Listening to the AnthroBiology Podcast 🙂
  • The Arch & Anth Podcast
  • Serial
  • Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel Lieberman (Vintage, 2014)

EP 29 – DR. CHRISTOPHER D. LYNN (08 SEPTEMBER 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Inking of Immunity Podcast (opens in Apple Podcasts)
  • Inking of Immunity Facebook
  • Inking of Immunity Instagram
  • Inking of Immunity Twitter
  • Sausage of Science Podcast (opens in Apple Podcasts)
• What he’s reading for work:
  • Master’s thesis: From Stigmatized to Empowered by Emmy Smith
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Series
  • World Without End by Ken Follett (Penguin Random House, 2010)
  • The Wire (HBO)
  • Treme (HBO)
  • The Deuce (HBO)
  • Gardening

EP 30 – DR. SARAH KINDSCHUH (23 SEPTEMBER 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo by Clea Koff (Random House, 2005)
  • Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Dr. William Maples and Michael Browning (Crown Publishing, 1995)
• What she’s reading for work right now:
  • Mentorship information and podcasts
  • Michelle Obama Podcast (opens in Apple Podcasts)
  • Life Kit from NPR
• What she’s consuming for fun:
  • James SA Corey’s The Expanse series
  • The Expanse TV show (opens in Amazon Prime Video)

EP 31 – DR. ROBERT ANEMONE (28 OCTOBER 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Anemone, Robert & Emerson, Charles. (2014). Fossil GPS. Scientific American. 310. 46-51. 10.1038/scientificamerican0514-46.
  • Dr. Anemone’s website
  • New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences edited by Anemone and Conroy (SAR, 2018)
  • Anemone, Robert & Emerson, Charles & Conroy, Glenn. (2011). Finding Fossils in New Ways: An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Predicting the Location of Productive Fossil Localities. Evolutionary anthropology. 20. 169-80. 10.1002/evan.20324.
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science by Peter Hotez (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)
  • Skull anatomy and developmental biology
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Elmore Leonard crime novels
  • Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach (Anchor, 2005)

EP 32 – DR. BILL SCHUTT (11 NOVEMBER 2021)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Pump: A Natural History of the Heart by Bill Schutt (Workmans, 2021)
  • Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt (Algonquin Books, 2018)
  • Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt (Crown, 2009)
  • Bill Schutt’s website
  • Bill Schutt’s facebook
  • Bill Schutt’s twitter
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed by Dave Thompson (Backbeat Books, 2009)
  • A collection of HP Lovecraft short stories
  • Murdoch Mysteries (opens in Hulu)

EP 33 – DR. JONATHAN MARKS (23 FEBRUARY 2022)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Why Are There Still Creationists?: Human Evolution and the Ancestors by Jonathan Marks (Polity Books, 2021)
  • The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology by Jonathan Marks (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Dr. Marks’ website
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
  • A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Kraus and Thomas Trappe (Random House, 2022)
  • The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavates His Life by Michael Coe (Thames & Hudson, 2006)
  • A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristin Swenson (Oxford University Press, 2021)
  • Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby (Haymarket Books, 2022)

EP 34 – DR. DAVID BRAUN (25 MARCH 2022)

• What to read to learn more:
  • Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology website
  • Stone Age Archaeology website (Dr. Braun’s lab)
  • Koobi Fora Field School
  • Smithsonian Human Origins Program
  • American Museum of Natural History Human Origins
  • ASU Institute of Human Origins
• What he’s reading for work right now:
  • Will, M., Krapp, M., Stock, J.T. et al. Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo. Nat Commun 12, 4116 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24290-7
• What he’s consuming for fun:
  • Ted Lasso (Apple TV)

Ep. 35: Ms. Selina Carlhoff – Archaeogenetics (20 April 2022)

• Selina Carlhoff’s MPI-FEA bio
• Introduction to Archaeogenetics [Link opens in YouTube]
• Genome of hunter-gatherer from Wallacea report
• Ancient genome report
• Wagner, Jennifer K. et al. Fostering Responsible Research on Ancient DNA. The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 107, Issue 2, 183 – 195
• Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Anthony, D., Babiker, H. et al. Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines. Nature 599, 41–46 (2021).
• Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology, Ed. by B Shook, L Braff, K Nelson, K Aguilera. 2nd Ed. 2023.
• N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy

Ep. 36: Dr. Julia Boughner – Teeth (18 May 2022)

• Dr. Julia Boughner’s ResearchGate profile
• Dr. Boughner’s faculty page
• Marchiori DF, Packota GV, Boughner JC. Initial third molar development is delayed in jaws with short distal space: An early impaction sign? Arch Oral Biol. 2019 Oct;106:104475. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2019.06.010. Epub 2019 Jul 4. PMID: 31306938.
• Bad molars? The origins of wisdom teeth
• P. Ungar. (2014). Teeth: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
• T. Smith. (2018). The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior. MIT Press.
• N. Hayes. (2021). The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us. Bloomsbury.
• E. Favilli. (2020). Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World. Rebel Girls.
• A. Garza. (2021). The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. One World.

Ep. 37: Dr. Nicole Iturriaga – Exhuming Violent Histories (16 June 2022)

• Dr. Iturriaga’s website
• N. Iturriaga (2022). Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past. Columbia University Press.
• Iturriaga, N., & Denman, D. S. (2022). The necropolitical spectrum: Political lives of the surplus dead. Human Remains and Violence, 8(1), 3-22. Retrieved Jun 3, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.8.1.2
• Library of Congress’ Black Wallstreet in Tulsa/1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
• S. Ellsworth. (2022). The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice. Dutton.
• R. Das. (2011). Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart. HarperOne.
• J. Didion. (1968). Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farar, Strauss, and Giroux.
• B. Evaristo. (2019). Girl, Woman, Other. Grove Press.
• E. St John-Mandel. (2023). Sea of Tranquility. Vintage.
• M. Owens & D. Owens. (1992). Cry of the Kalahari. Mariner Books.

Ep. 38: Dr. John Lindo – Ancient DNA & Pre-Contact Groups (20 July 2022)

• Dr. Lindo’s website
• C. Clark. (2018). “DNA analysis adds twists to ancient story of a Native American group“. Emory University News Center.
• L. Wade. (2018). “How the people of the Andes evolved to live in high altitudes“. Science.
• Lindo J, De La Rosa R, Santos ALCD, Sans M, DeGiorgio M, Figueiro G. The genomic prehistory of the Indigenous peoples of Uruguay. PNAS Nexus. 2022 Apr 21;1(2):pgac047. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac047. PMID: 36713318; PMCID: PMC9802099.
• Nature Reviews Genetics – DNA articles
• C. Murray. (2020). Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. Twelve.
• D. Moore. (2017). The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics. Oxford University Press.
• Pryor Y, Lindo J. Deconstructing Eurocentrism in skin pigmentation research via the incorporation of diverse populations and theoretical perspectives. Evol Anthropol. 2023 Aug;32(4):195-205. doi: 10.1002/evan.21993. Epub 2023 Jul 14. PMID: 37450551.
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, TV show
• 1000 Genomes homepage
• Genotype Tissue Expression Project homepage

Ep. 39: Dr. Christian Crowder – Forensic Anthropology (23 September 2022)

• Dr. Crowder’s ResearchGate profile
• H. Scammell & D. Ubelaker. (2000). Bones: A Forensic Detective’s Casebook. M. Evans and Company.
• M. Browning & W. Maples. (1995). Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist. Crown Publishing Group.
• Ed. N. Langley & M. Tersigni-Tarrant. (2012) Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction. CRC Press.
• A. Christensen, N. Passalacqua, E. Bartelink. (2014). Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice. Academic Press.
• ScienceDirect’s Forensic Anthropology homepage
• E. Carlson. (1996). I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared. Temple University Press.
• Ed. A. Klales. (2020). Sex Estimation of the Human Skeleton: History, Methods, and Emerging Techniques. Academic Press.
• Bethard JD, DiGangi EA. Letter to the Editor-Moving Beyond a Lost Cause: Forensic Anthropology and Ancestry Estimates in the United States. J Forensic Sci. 2020 Sep;65(5):1791-1792. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.14513. Epub 2020 Jul 23. PMID: 33104304; PMCID: PMC7496147.

Ep. 40: Dr. King & Dr. Fuentes – Research Animal Welfare (01 November 2022)

• Dr. Agustin Fuentes’ website
• Dr. Barbara King’s website
• B. King. (2021). Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. University of Chicago Press.
• A. Fuentes. (2019). Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being. Yale University Press.
• A. Fuentes. (2022). Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature. University of California Press.
• L. Cooke. (2022). Bitch: On the Female of the Species. Basic Books.
• D. Peña-Guzman. (2022). When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness. Princeton University Press.
• A. Elliott Dark. (2023). Fellowship Point. S&S/Marysue Rucci Books.
• Woke (TV series)
• Bridgerton (TV series)
• Evil (TV series)
• For All Mankind (TV series)

Ep. 41: Mr. Rick Coste – Evolution Talk (28 November 2022)

• Rick Coste’s website
• Evolution Talk podcast [links opens in Spotify]
• R. Coste. (2022). Evolution Talk: The Who, What, Why, and How Behind the Oldest Story Ever Told. Prometheus Books.
• Cole, James, ‘Knapping in the Dark: Stone Tools and a Theory of Mind’, in Karenleigh A. Overmann, and Frederick L. Coolidge (eds), Squeezing Minds From Stones: Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind (New York
  , 2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854614.003.0018.
• B. Chambers. (2016). The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Harper Voyager.
• J. Marks. (2021). Why Are There Still Creationists?: Human Evolution and the Ancestors. Polity Press.
• D. Chalmers. (2023). Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Saga, comic series by Brian K. Vaughn, illustrated by Fiona Staples
• R. Chambers. (2015). Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.

Ep. 42: Dr. James Cole – Stone Tools & Cognition (21 December 2022)

• Dr. Cole’s University of Brighton faculty page
• Dr. Cole’s ResearchGate profile
• Cole, J. Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic. Sci Rep 7, 44707 (2017).
• Galway-Witham, J., Cole, J. and Stringer, C. (2019), Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years. J. Quaternary Sci., 34: 355-378.
• Kohn M, Mithen S. Handaxes: products of sexual selection? Antiquity. 1999;73(281):518-526.
• Harré M. (2012). Social Network Size Linked to Brain Size: How and why the volume of the orbital prefrontal cortex is related to the size of social networks. Sci Am.
• Borgen (TV series)
• For All Mankind (TV series)

Ep. 43: Dr. Kirsty Graham – Bonobos + Gestural Communication (30 January 2023)

• Dr. Graham’s ResearchGate profile
• Graham KE, Hobaiter C. Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures. PLoS Biol. 2023 Jan 24;21(1):e3001939.
• Wickelgren I. (2023). Humans Can Correctly Guess the Meaning of Chimp Gestures. Sci Am.
• Eleuteri, Vesta & Henderson, Matthew & Soldati, Adrian & Badihi, Gal & Zuberbühler, Klaus & Hobaiter, Catherine. (2022). The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming. Animal Behaviour. 192. 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.07.013.
• Soldati, Adrian & Fedurek, Pawel & Dezecache, Guillaume & Call, Josep & Zuberbühler, Klaus. (2022). Audience sensitivity in chimpanzee display pant hoots. Animal Behaviour. 190. 23-40. 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.05.010.
• Haraway D. (1990). Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge.
• Rutherford A. (2020). The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us. Experiment.
• Weir A. (2022). Project Hail Mary. Ballantine Books.
• Chambers B. (2016). The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Harper Voyager.

Ep. 44: Ms. Rhianna Drummond-Clarke – Chimpanzees + Bipedalism (24 March 2023)

• Rhianna Drummond-Clarke’s Max Planck Institute profile page
• Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke et al. (2022). Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism. Sci. Adv. 8,eadd9752.
• Ed. by Muller MN, RW Wrangham, DR Pilbeam. (2017). Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Belknap Press.
• DeSilva J. (2022). First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. Harper Collins.
• Thorpe SK, Crompton RH. Orangutan positional behavior and the nature of arboreal locomotion in Hominoidea. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Nov;131(3):384-401.
• The Infinite Monkey Cage (podcast)

Ep. 45: Dr. Jeremy DeSilva – Bipedalism (22 July 2023)

• Dr. DeSilva’s website
• DeSilva J. (2022). First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. Harper Collins.
• Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke et al. (2022). Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism. Sci. Adv. 8,eadd9752.
• DeSilva, J. (2022). Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism. Sci Am. Nov 22.
• Saini, A. (2023). The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality. Beacon Press.
• Miller, L. (2021). Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life. Simon & Schuster.
• Ian Tattersall’s books
• American Association of Biological Anthropologists job board
• Saini, A. (2020). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
• Saini, A. (2018). Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Beacon Press.

Ep. 46: Dr. Dan Benyshek – Placentophagy (03 January 2024)

• Dr. Benyshek’s faculty profile at UNLV
• Dr. Benyshek’s ResearchGate profile
• Benyshek, Daniel & Bovbjerg, Marit & Cheyney, Melissa. (2023). Comparison of placenta consumers’ and non-consumers’ postpartum depression screening results using EPDS in US community birth settings (n=6038): a propensity score analysis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 23. 10.1186/s12884-023-05852-7.
• Johnson, Sophia & Pastuschek, Jana & Benyshek, Daniel & Heimann, Yvonne & Möller, Anne & Rödel, Jürgen & White, Jacob & Zöllkau, Janine & Groten, Tanja. (2022). Impact of tissue processing on microbiological colonization in the context of placentophagy. Scientific Reports. 12. 10.1038/s41598-022-09243-4.
• Young, Sharon & Gryder-Culver, Laura & Cross, Chad & Zava, David & Norris, Wendy & Benyshek, Daniel. (2019). Ingestion of Steamed and Dehydrated Placenta Capsules Does Not Affect Postpartum Plasma Prolactin Levels or Neonatal Weight Gain: Results from a Randomized, Double‐Bind, Placebo‐Controlled Pilot Study. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health. 64. 10.1111/jmwh.12955.
• Benyshek, Daniel & Cheyney, Melissa & Brown, Jennifer & Bovbjerg, Marit. (2018). Placentophagy among women planning community births in the United States: Frequency, rationale, and associated neonatal outcomes. Birth. 45. 10.1111/birt.12354.
• Herlosky, Kristen & Benyshek, Daniel & Mabulla, Ibrahim & Pollom, Trevor & Crittenden, Alyssa. (2020). Postpartum Maternal Mood Among Hadza Foragers of Tanzania: A Mixed Methods Approach. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 44. 10.1007/s11013-019-09655-4.
• Ed. by Gluckman, P & M Hanson. (2006). Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Cambridge University Press.
• Gluckman, P & M Hanson. (2019). Ingenious: The Unintended Consequences of Human Innovation. Harvard University Press.
• Dr. Michael Winkelman’s books
• For fun (original episode): Fly fishing, mountain biking
• Dr. Roland Griffiths on Making Sense with Sam Harris
• Samson, D. (2023). Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts Into a Force for Good. St. Martin’s Press.

Ep. 47: Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen – Using Bioarchaeology to Understand Health (24 February 2024)

• Dr. Larsen’s faculty page
• Dr. Larsen’s Google Scholar profile
• Clark Spencer Larsen Wikipedia page
• CS Larsen. (2023). The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation, population and evolution shaped who we are today PNAS.
• CS Larsen & F Crespo. (2022). Paleosyndemics: A bioarchaeological and biosocial approach to study infectious diseases in the past. Centaurus article [PDF]
• CS Larsen. (2015). Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. Cambridge University Press.
• CS Larsen. (2018). Essentials of Biological Anthropology. W. W. Norton & Company.
• CS Larsen. (2019). Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Gunsmoke (TV series)

Ep. 48: Dr. Trent Trombley – Medieval Teeth, Part 1 (25 March 2024)

• Dr. Trombley’s ResearchGate profile
• Trombley TM, Agarwal SC, Beauchesne PD, Goodson C, Candilio F, Coppa A, Rubini M. Making Sense of Medieval Mouths: Investigating Sex Differences of Dental Pathological Lesions in a Late Medieval Italian Community. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2019 Jun;169(2):253-269. 
• Trombley, Trent & Beauchesne, Patrick & Agarwal, Sabrina & Kinkopf, Katherine & Goodson, Caroline & Candilio, Francesca & Coppa, Alfredo & Rubini, Mauro. (2023). Growing up at Villamagna: Sex, Gender, and Stress During Growth and Development in a Medieval Italian Community. Bioarchaeology International. 10.5744/bi.2022.0022.
• BioAnthropology News Facebook Group
• T Smith. (2018). The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, Behavior. MIT Press.
• R Barnett. (2017). The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry. Thames & Hudson.
• Dr. Simon Hillson’s books on dental anthropology
• K Gannon. (2020). Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. West Virginia University Press.
• A Fuentes. (2022). Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature. University of California Press.
• C Liu (translation J Martinsen). (2019). Ball Lightning. Tor Books.
• C Liu (translation J Martinsen & K Liu). (2019). The Three-Body Problem Series. Tor Books.
• D Simmons. (1990). Hyperion. Spectra Books.
• Becky Chambers books
• R Nayler. (2023). The Mountain in the Sea. Picador USA.

Ep. 49: Dr. Caroline Goodson & Dr. Trent Trombley – Medieval Teeth, Part 2 (25 April 2024)

• Medieval Mouths in Context: Biocultural and MultiScalar Considerations of the Mouth and the Case of Late-Medieval Villamagna, Italy
• Dr. Roberta Gilchrist, Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course
• Dr. Virginia Burruss, Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus
• Dr. Karl Jacoby, The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
• Dr. Roberta Gilchrist, University of Reading
• Dr. Shannon Novak, Syracuse University
• Dr. Lauren Hosek, University of Colorado – Boulder
• Dr. Stephen Brookfield, Discussion as a Way of Teaching
• Adrian Miller, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
• Jim Auchmutey, Smoke Lore: A Short History of Barbecue in America

Ep. 50: Dr. Danny Wescott – Body Farm at Texas State (23 May 2024)

• Dr. Wescott’s ResearchGate profile
• Haglund & Sorg, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archeological Perspectives
• DO Carter, D Yellowlees, M Tibbett. Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecology. Science of Nature 94(1), 2007
• Lee Lyman, Vertebrate Taphonomy
• PS Barton, D Lindenmeyer, AD Manning, SA Cunningham, The role of carrion in maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Oecologia 171(4), 2012
• John Currey, Bones: Structure and Mechanics
• David Burr, Basic and Applied Bone Biology
• C Ruff, B Holt, E Trinkaus, Who’s afraid of the big bad Wolff?: Wolff’s Law and bone functional adaptation. Am J Phys Anthropol, 129(4), 2006
• P Capodaglio, et al. Effect of obesity on knee and ankle biomechanics while walking. Sensors (Basel), 21(21), 2021
• BA Sanford, et al. Hip, knee, and ankle joint forces in healthy weight, overweight, and obese individuals during walking. 2014
• Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
• Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ep. 51: Dr. Mark Griffin – Teeth in Pre-Contact Native American groups (02 June 2024)

• Griffin, MC. (2014). Biocultural implication of oral pathology in an ancient central California population. Am J Phys Anthropol, 154(2), 171-188.
• Griffin, MC. (2018). The End of Prehistory in the Land of Coosa: Oral Health in a Late Mississippian Village. In S Chappell Hodge & KA Shuler Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast: Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past (1st ed., pp 69-91). University of Alabama Press.
• Ed Yong. (2016). I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. Ecco.
• Kathleen McAuliffe. (2016). This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society. Mariner Books.
• Clinical literature on auditory exostoses
• Cardinal (detective drama, currently on Hulu as of June 2024)
• MC Beaton, Agatha Raisin series (Books + TV series — I’ve only read the books, but I hear the show is great)
• cozy-mystery.com [My bad, y’all. I said the wrong URL on the show. There are like 5 sites that also do this, but this is the one I was thinking of. The clip art is perfect.]
• Sister Boniface Mysteries (Nun solves crimes in British countryside, currently on BritBox as of June 2024)
• Father Brown (Priest solves crimes in British countryside, currently on BritBox as of June 2024)
• Cadfael (Medieval monk solves crimes. Books + TV series)
• Grantchester (Anglican vicar solves crimes. Short stories + TV series)

Ep. 52: Dr. Sabrina Sholts – The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs (13 June 2024)

• Sholts, S. (2024). The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from our Bodies to Our Beliefs. MIT Press.
• Dr. Sholt’s Google Scholar profile
• Dr. Sholt’s NMNH profile
• Lieberman, D. (2014). The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. Vintage Books.
• Garrett, L. (2020). The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Picador USA.
• Villarosa, L. (2023). Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives. Anchor Books.
• Hatzfeld, J. (2006). Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. Picador USA.
• Hatzfeld, J. (2007). Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak. Other Press.
• Hatzfeld, J. (2008). Into the Quick of Life: The Rwandan Genocide – The Survivors Speak. Serpent’s Tail.
• Hatzfeld, J. (2010). The Antelope’s Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide. St. Martin’s Press-3PL.
• Lachenal, G. & Thomas, G. (2023). Atlas historique des épidémies. Autrement.
• St John-Mandel, E. (2015). Station Eleven. Vintage Books.

Ep. 53: Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug – Bioarchaeology + anthropology in policymaking (31 July 2024)

• Dr. Robbins Schug’s faculty page at UNCG
• Robbins Schug Human Diversity Lab Website
• G. Robbins Schug, S. E. Halcrow, Building a bioarchaeology of pandemic, epidemic, and syndemic diseases: Lessons for understanding COVID-19. Bioarchaeol. Int. 6, 179–200 (2022).
• G. Robbins Schug et al., Climate change, human health, and resilience in the Holocene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120 (2023).
• Grauer, A. (Ed.) (2015). A Companion to Paleopathology. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Buiktra, J. (Ed.) (2019). Ortner’s Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (3rd edition). Academic Press.
• Resnick, D. (2001). Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders: 5-Volume Set. Saunders.
• Planetary Health Alliance
• Sholts, S. (2024). The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from our Bodies to Our Beliefs. MIT Press.
• For fun: Kayaking!