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Week 2

Charnov and Berrigan (1993) Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? Evolutionary Anthropology 1:191-194.

Jolicoeur, P. et al. 1988. A lifetime asymptotic growth curve for human height. Biometrics 44:995-1003. (grad)

Week 3-4

FANTA Chapters: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, Appendix

Charnov and Ernest (2006) Offspring size/clutch size trade-off in mammals. American Naturalist 167(4): 578-582. (grad)

Moses M.E., Brown J.H. 2003. Allometry of human fertility and energy use. Ecology Letters 6:295-300.

West et al. (2001) General model for ontogenetic growth. Nature 413:628-631 (grad).

Week 5

Leigh (2001) Evolution of human growth.Evolutionary Anthroplogy 10:223-236.

Walker, R., Gurven, M., et al. 2006. Growth rates, developmental markers and life histories in 21 small-scale societies. 2006. American Journal of Human Biology 18:295-311.

Week 6

Ruff (1997) "Body mass and encephalization..." Nature 387:173-176.

Ruff (2002) Variation in human body size and shape. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:211-232.

Week 7

Leigh (2004) Brain growth, life history, and cognition... Am J Primatol 62:139-164.

Kuzawa (1998) Adipose tissue in human infancy... Yrbk Phys Anth 41:177-209 (grad).

McDade (2005) The ecologies of human immune function. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 495-521.

Week 8

Gluckman, P.D. (2007) Early life events and their consequences for later disease: a life history and evolutionary perspective. American Journal of Human Biology 19:1-19.

Barker, D., Gluckman, P., et al. 1993. Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life. Lancet 341:938-941.

Week 9

Weindruch, R. 2007. Calorie restriction and aging. Scientific American Special Edition 16(4):54-62.

Gavrilov and Gavrilova. 2004. Why we fall apart. IEEE Spectrum.

Costa 2002 Changing chronic disease rates and long-term declines in functional limitation among older men. Demography 39:119-137.

Week 10

Ulijaszek et al. (1998) "Genetics of growth" in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development, 121-144 (grad).