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Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities (2023)
Journal Article

This paper explores negotiations of futures within and beyond Germany’s formerly fastest shrinking city, the East German city of Hoyerswerda. Originally built for the German Democratic Republic’s miners and energy workers, its model socialist New Cit... Read More about Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities.

Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf (2023)
Journal Article

Sundaland, comprising the low-lying Sunda Shelf, the major islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, as well as many smaller surrounding islands, formed a contiguous landmass through much of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Subsequent late-Pleistocene risin... Read More about Climate, not Quaternary biogeography, explains skull morphology of the long-tailed macaque on the Sunda Shelf.

Barley cultivation for beer on the Jos Plateau: agricultural innovation as a response to structural adjustment. (1991)
Preprint / Working Paper

Rural fuel supply and sales on the Jos Plateau [Part II of Fuelwood Studies] (1993)
Preprint / Working Paper

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

Food marketing and urban food supply on the Jos Plateau. (1992)
Preprint / Working Paper

Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates (2023)
Journal Article

Species’ life histories determine population demographics and thus the probability that introduced populations establish and spread. Life histories also influence which species are most likely to be introduced, but how such ‘introduction biases’ aris... Read More about Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.

Introduction: What Competition Does (2022)
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Anthropologists, like neoliberal economists, have often assumed that competition (re)orders society in broadly predictable ways. By contrast, we contend that competition always facilitates changes beyond its anticipated outcomes and disciplinary effe... Read More about Introduction: What Competition Does.

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies (2023)
Journal Article

In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this article... Read More about The Intersections between Food and Cultural Landscape: Insights from Three Mountain Case Studies.

Major Emerging Fungal Diseases of Reptiles and Amphibians (2023)
Journal Article

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are caused by pathogens that have undergone recent changes in terms of geographic spread, increasing incidence, or expanding host range. In this narrative review, we describe three important fungal EIDs with kerati... Read More about Major Emerging Fungal Diseases of Reptiles and Amphibians.

Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data (2023)
Journal Article

Identification and isolation of COVID-19 infected persons plays a significant role in the control of COVID-19 pandemic. A country's COVID-19 positive testing rate is useful in understanding and monitoring the disease transmission and spread for the p... Read More about Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data.

The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting (2023)
Journal Article

Attentional set shifting is a core ingredient of cognition, allowing for fast adaptation to changes in the environment. How this skill compares between humans and other primates is not well known. We examined performance of 3- to 5-year-old children... Read More about The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting.

Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use (2023)
Journal Article

Drawing on both mathematical and anthropological understandings of fractality, this paper explores alternative perspectives of time as it relates to heroin addiction and poly-substance use in Scotland. The paper ethnographically illustrates temporali... Read More about Fractals for an ethnography of time and addiction: Recursive and self-similar temporalities in heroin and poly-substance use.

Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials (2023)
Journal Article

The UK is rolling out a national childhood influenza immunisation programme for children, delivered through primary care and schools. Behaviourally-informed letters and reminders have been successful at increasing uptake of other public health interv... Read More about Can uptake of childhood influenza immunisation through schools and GP practices be increased through behaviourally-informed invitation letters and reminders: two pragmatic randomized controlled trials.

The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy (2023)
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The production of data and numbers has become the key mechanism of both knowing and governing global public policy. And yet, processes of quantification are inherently paradoxical: from expectations of technocratic rationality and political usability... Read More about The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy.

Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2023)
Journal Article

The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use.

A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context? (2023)
Journal Article

Hadza food-sharing is extremely generous and often extends to individuals outside the household. Some anthropologists have proposed that individuals, especially men, share food beyond the household in order to signal foraging skill. While correlation... Read More about A cost for signaling: do Hadza hunter-gatherers forgo calories to show-off in an experimental context?.

Gastrointestinal Polyparasitism in Bushmeat in Zadie Department in Northeast Gabon (2023)
Journal Article

Wildlife is an important source of infectious pathogens, including parasites. Intestinal parasites are among the parasites associated with outbreaks of foodborne disease. This article analyses gastrointestinal parasites in fecal and intestine samples... Read More about Gastrointestinal Polyparasitism in Bushmeat in Zadie Department in Northeast Gabon.