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Description:: Since the mid-20th century, urbanization has altered the physical landscape and brought social, economic and lifestyle changes to populations worldwide. In the Global South, this has dramatically affected environmental conditions of settlements, communities, and households, with both positive and negative consequences for population health. The objective of this dissertation is...
Subject:: Physical anthropology
Creator:: McCabe, Kimberly A.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_934882 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16297

Description:: Early life adversity predicts greater health risk in later life across multiple outcomes, including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. While biological pathways are incompletely understood, evidence is increasingly highlighting immune function, specifically chronic inflammation, which is implicated in cardiometabolic diseases, certain cancers, and all-cause mortality. Links between early adversity...
Subject:: Physical anthropology
Creator:: Aronoff, Jacob
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_945998 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16356

Description:: ABSTRACTFor several decades, dams have played an essential role in human development. In many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), the construction of dams remains an integral part of industrialization and modernization. However, dam construction and associated infrastructure have significantly contributed to socioecological destruction and population displacement. For example, the construction of...
Keyword:: Development, Dams, Thwake Multipurpose Dam, Infrastructure, Biosocial, and Displacement
Subject:: Physical anthropology, Biology, and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Owuor, Patrick Mbullo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_919619 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16170

Description:: Recent discoveries in vitamin D research indicate that vitamin D is a necessary component to several organs and tissues that extends beyond bone formation Furthermore, recent research indicates that vitamin D deficiency is rampant across the globe. Historically, anthropological research has focused on the adaptive significance of skin color to...
Keyword:: Philippines, developmental biology, Vitamin D, biological anthropology & human biology, gender & sex, and epigenetics
Subject:: Physical anthropology, Public health, and Developmental biology
Creator:: Perez, Julianna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15568 and etdadmin_upload_818816

Description:: Human biologists remain invested in the prospect of developing a ‘biocultural synthesis.’ The primary concerns identified in major touchstones of this effort include the presentation of biological function in terms of social relations, understanding the role that humans play in constructing their own environments for development and evolution, and linking...
Subject:: Physical anthropology
Creator:: Bragg, Jared
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_788891 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15439

Description:: People and horses have a deep, co-constructed, and co-evolutionary history. This dissertation evaluates sociopolitical change of the Hungarian Bronze Age (2800 – 800 BC) in the context of long-term shifts in human-horse relationships. In the Bronze Age, horses are assumed to mount the development of complex polities ruled by elite,...
Keyword:: Horses, Hungary, Human-Animal Relationships, Archaeology, and Bronze Age
Subject:: Physical anthropology, Ancient history, and Archaeology
Creator:: Kanne, Katherine Stevens
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14475 and etdadmin_upload_627420

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