SoS 70 – Child growth and energetic constraints with Dr. Sam Urlacher

This week on the Sausage of Science, Cara and Chris talk with Dr. Sam Urlacher, an assistant professor at Baylor University. Dr. Urlacher discusses his work examining life history tradeoffs and energetic constraints among Shuar children of Amazonian Ecuador. In addition, he answers questions about possible links between COVID-19 and child development patterns, and also gives some advice on starting a new tenure-track position. Follow Dr. Urlacher on twitter @SSUrlacher, and check out his website https://scholar.harvard.edu/samuel_s_urlacher/home You can find the papers referenced in the episode here: “Constraint and tradeoffs regulate energy expenditure during childhood” https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaax1065 “Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists” https://www.pnas.org/content/115/17/E3914 Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: [email protected] Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:[email protected], Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:[email protected], Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @careowens Theresa Gildner, Email: [email protected], Twitter: @TEGildner