Sample Articles

Fetal Origins of Developmental Plasticity Symposium

Strategies for Reproductive Success Special Issue

Information for Authors

EDITOR

Peter T. Ellison

Harvard University

The American Journal of Human Biology is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed, internationally circulated journal that publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles and timely reviews, and brief communications in the interdisciplinary field of human biology. As the official journal of the HUMAN BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION, the Journal also publishes abstracts of research presented at its annual scientific meeting and book reviews relevant to the field.

The Journal seeks scholarly manuscripts that address all aspects of human biology, health, and disease, particularly those that stress comparative, developmental, ecological, or evolutionary perspectives. The transdisciplinary areas covered by human biology include, but are not limited to, epidemiology, genetic variation, population biology and demography, physiology, anatomy, nutrition, growth and aging, physical performance, physical activity and fitness, ecology, and evolution, along with their interactions. The Journal publishes basic, applied, and methodologically oriented research from all areas, including measurement, analytical techniques and strategies, and computer applications in human biology. Like many other biologically oriented disciplines, the field of human biology has undergone considerable growth and diversification in recent years, and the expansion of the aims and scope of the Journal is a reflection of this growth and membership diversification.

READERSHIP

Epidemiologists · population biologists · physiologists · anatomists · nutritionists · ecologists · evolutionary biologists

INDEXED OR ABSTRACTED IN:

BIOSIS Data Base, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Current Contents/Life Science, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Expanded Academic Index, Index Medicus, Institute for Scientific Information-Russian Academy, Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI), General Science Index, General Science Abstracts

Articles

A reassessment of sexual dimorphism in human senescence: Theory, evidence, and causation
Brent M. Graves, Mac Strand, Alec R. Lindsay
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Testosterone-mediated immune functions and male life histories
Michael P. Muehlenbein, Richard G. Bribiescas
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The aging brain: The cognitive reserve hypothesis and hominid evolution
John S. Allen, Joel Bruss, Hanna Damasio
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Issues in evolutionary medicine
Stephen C. Sterns
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A brief history of the Human Biology Association: 1974-2004
Michael A. Little, Gary D. James
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Energetic and nutritional regulation of the adaptive immune response and trade-offs in ecological immunology
Kurt Z. Long, Nanda Nanthakumar
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Recent decline in age at menarche: The Fels Longitudinal Study
Ellen W. Demerath, Bradford Towne, W. Cameron Chumlea, Shumei S. Sun, Stefan A. Czerwinski, Karen E. Remsberg, Roger M. Siervogel
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Exposure to maternal diabetes is associated with altered fetal growth patterns: A hypothesis regarding metabolic allocation to growth under hyperglycemic-hypoxemic conditions
Michelle Lampl, Philippe Jeanty
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Pearl Memorial Lecture Raymond Pearl's Legacy: The proper measure of man
Robert R. Sokal
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A new protocol for evaluating putative causes for multiple variables in a spatial setting, illustrated by its application to European cancer rates
Robert R. Sokal, Neal L. Oden, Michael S. Rosenberg, Barbara A. Thomson
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Editor-in-Chief
Peter T. Ellison
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: ajhb@fas.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 384-9645