American Journal of Human Biology

Article	Citations
Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, andCOVID‐19: A syndemic in the making?	228
Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the COVID‐19 health crisis	75
COVID‐19‐related financial stress associated with higher likelihood of depression among pregnant women living in the United States	62
Don't blame the BAME: Ethnic and structural inequalities in susceptibilities to COVID‐19	58
“Epigenetic clocks”: Theory and applications in human biology	52
Challenging the binary: Gender/sex and the bio‐logics of normalcy	48
Stigma, pandemics, and human biology: Looking back, looking forward	27
Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small‐scale populations in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments	21
Pearl lecture: Biological normalcy: A new framework for biocultural analysis of human population variation	20
Elevated resting metabolic rates among female, but not male, reindeer herders from subarctic Finland	20
Biocultural approaches to transgender and gender diverse experience and health: Integrating biomarkers and advancing gender/sex research	20
Doing biocultural anthropology: Continuity and change	20
Dynamics of behavior change in the COVID world	20
Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit	19
Adherence to 24‐hour movement guidelines in low‐income Brazilian preschoolers and associations with demographic correlates	19
Prediction of maturity offset and age at peak height velocity in a longitudinal series of boys and girls	18
Biologically normal sleep in the mother‐infant dyad	18
COVID‐19, crisis, and emotional stress: A biocultural perspective of their impact on growth and development for the next generation	18
Using point clouds to investigate the relationship between trabecular bone phenotype and behavior: An example utilizing the human calcaneus	18
A highly sensitive multiplex immunoassay for inflammatory cytokines in dried blood spots	18
Maternal and child health during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Contributions in the field of human biology	18
Want climate‐change adaptation? Evolutionary theory can help	17
Centering human milk composition as normal human biological variation	17
Medieval menarche: Changes in pubertal timing before and after the Black Death	16
Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective	16

Obesity, noncommunicable diseases, and COVID‐19: A perfect storm	16
Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis	16
Human adaptation to climate change: An introduction to the special issue	16
Effects of a mixed‐subsistence diet on the growth of Hadza children	15
A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era	15
What is normal bone health? A bioarchaeological perspective on meaningful measures and interpretations of bone strength, loss, and aging	14
One size does not fit all. How universal standards for normal height can hide deprivation and create false paradoxes	14
Human biological variation and the “normal”	14
What is normal, healthy growth? Global health, human biology, and parental perspectives	14
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions: Structural validations for conversion into standard values	13
Stunting is the natural condition of human height	13
The interaction between FTO rs9939609 and physical activity is associated with a 2‐fold reduction in the risk of obesity in Korean population	13
Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations	13
A composite measure of healthy lifestyle: A study from 38 countries and regions from Europe and North America, from the Health Behavior in School‐Aged Children survey	13
Do people manage climate risk through long‐distance relationships?	13
Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing	13
Reindeer herders from subarctic Finland exhibit high total energy expenditure and low energy intake during the autumn herd roundup	12
“All the problems in the community are multifaceted and related to each other”: Inuit concerns in an era of climate change	12
The associations between digit ratio, aerobic fitness, physical skills, and overall physical fitness of elite youth distance runners	12
Social memory and niche construction in a hypervariable environment	12
Paternal origin of Tungusic‐speaking populations: Insights from the updated phylogenetic tree of Y‐chromosome haplogroup C2a‐M86	11
The relationship between digit ratio (2D:4D) and muscular fitness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Evaluating life history trade‐offs through the presence of linear enamel hypoplasia at Pueblo Bonito and Hawikku: A biocultural study of early life stress and survival in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwes	11
Hotter and sicker: External energy expenditure and the tangled evolutionary roots of anthropogenic climate change and chronic disease	11
Genetics of somatotype and physical fitness in children and adolescents	11
Scaling climate change to human behavior predicting good and bad years for Maya farmers	11
Transmission‐dynamics models for the SARS Coronavirus‐2	10
Human neonates prefer colostrum to mature milk: Evidence for an olfactory bias toward the “initial milk”?	10
Taking the sleep lab to the field: Biometric techniques for quantifying sleep and circadian rhythms in humans	10
Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among young adults in northeastern Siberia and Midwest United States and its relationship with other biological adaptations to cold climates	10
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection inIndiabucks the trend: Trained innate immunity?	10
Mind the gap: Contesting normal/abnormal constructs of human biology and behaviors	9
Fear, violence, inequality, and stunting in Guatemala	9
Promoting mental health in community and research settings during COVID‐19: Perspectives and experiences from Soweto, South Africa	9
Maternal physical, socioeconomic, and demographic characteristics and childbirth complications in rural lowland Nepal: Applying an evolutionary framework to understand the role of phenotypic plasticit	9
Linking subsistence harvest diversity and productivity to adaptive capacity in an Alaskan food sharing network	9
Obstetric dimensions of the female pelvis are less integrated than locomotor dimensions and show protective scaling patterns: Implications for the obstetrical dilemma	9
Anthropometric measures do not explain the 2D:4D ratio sexual dimorphism in 7‐year‐old children	9
Secular change in height and weight of rural school children and youth in west‐central Poland: 1986 to 2016	9
Intersecting vulnerabilities in human biology: Synergistic interactions between climate change and increasing obesity rates	9
The color of normal: How a Eurocentric focus erases pigmentation complexity	9
Weather permitting: Increased seasonal efficiency of nonshivering thermogenesis through brown adipose tissue activation in the winter	9
Sexual dimorphism in facial shape of modern Buryats of Southern Siberia	9
Comparing different sample collection and storage methods for field‐based skin microbiome research	8
Reproductive hormone measurement from minimally invasive sample types: Methodological considerations and anthropological importance	8
Short‐term fetal nutritional stress and long‐term health: Child height	8
Differences in maternal and early child nutritional status by offspring sex in lowland Nepal	8
Beyond serosurveys: Human biology and the measurement of SARS‐Cov‐2 antibodies	8
Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts	8
Biophysical evidence to support and extend the vitamin D‐folate hypothesis as a paradigm for the evolution of human skin pigmentation	8

Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point‐of‐care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, indigenous, and resource‐limited contexts	8
High expression levels of circulating microRNA‐122 and microRNA‐222 are associated with obesity in children with Mayan ethnicity	8
Evaluation of the body adiposity index against dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry for assessing body composition in children and adolescents	8
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?	7
Association between age at menarche and body mass index, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, and waist to height ratio in adult women	7
A biocultural examination of home food production and child growth in highland Peru	7
Fine motor skills and motor control networking in developmental age	7
Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically‐scaled	7
Skeletal muscle size distribution in large‐sized male and female athletes	7
Socioeconomic inequalities in children's health‐related quality of life according to weight status	7
Host genetic factors and susceptibility to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection	7
A preliminary analysis of the secondary sex ratio decline after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan	7
Recognizing normal reproductive biology: A comparative analysis of variability in menstrual cycle biomarkers in German and Bolivian women	7
Measuring attack on self: The need for field‐friendly methods development and research on autoimmunity in human biology	6
Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample	6
Magnitude and spatial distribution of food and nutrition security during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Tucumán (Argentina)	6
The COVID‐19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS‐CoV‐2 infection	6
Transient refugees' social support, mental health, and physiological markers: Evidence from Serbian asylum centers	6
More voices are always better: Tackling power differentials in knowledge production and access in human biology	6
Increased thymus weight in sudden infant death syndrome compared to controls: The role of sub‐clinical infections	6
Continuity and change in biocultural anthropology	6
Field methods and strategies for assessing female reproductive functioning	6
After Theranos: Using point‐of‐care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research	6
Opportunities and constraints in women's resource security amid climate change: A case study of arid‐living Namibian agro‐pastoralists	6
Toolkit article: Approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research	5
Demystifying mentorship: Tips for successfully navigating the mentor–mentee journey	5
Background, rationale, and methodological overview of the REACT project—return‐to‐action on growth, motor development, and health after the COVID‐19 pandemic in primary school ch	5
The association between the 2D:4D ratio and offspring sex at birth: A cross‐sectional study in Ghana	5
Analysis of secular trends in physical fitness of children and adolescents (8–18 years) from Kraków (Poland) between 2010 and 2020	5
Maternal marital status predicts self‐reported stress among pregnant women following hurricane Florence	5
Sleep duration is related to increased mortality risk through white blood cell counts in a large national sample	5
Fetal brain ultrasound measures and maternal nutrition: A feasibility study in Ecuador	5
Regional variation in growth status. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study	5
Sexual dimorphism in deciduous tooth crown size: Variability within and between groups	5
Body mass index trajectories and noncommunicable diseases in women: The role of leisure time physical activity	5
Trends in obesity and severe obesity prevalence in the United States from 1999 to 2018	5
An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers	5
Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population‐based research	5
Impact of modernization on urinary concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium in rural residents of Northern Laos	5
Cephalopelvic disproportion as primary diagnosis for cesarean section: Role of neonatal birthweight in relation to maternal height at a Hospital in Merida, Mexico	5
Association of TGFβ1 codon 10 (T>C) and IL‐10 (G>C) cytokine gene polymorphisms with longevity in a cohort of Italian population	5
Relationships between mental health and diet during pregnancy and birth outcomes in a lower‐middle income country: “Healthy mothers, healthy communities” study in Vanuatu	5
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood: A critical review and multilevel model of potential pathways	5
The role of dietary calcium in the etiology of childhood rickets in the past and the present	5
Cross‐cultural variation in thirst perception in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments: Evidence from two small‐scale populations	5
Roles of age, sex, and weight status in the muscular fitness of Chinese Tibetan children and adolescents living at altitudes over 3600 m: A cross‐sectional study	5
Extreme climatic events and human biology and health: A primer and opportunities for future research	5
Uniparental origins of the admixed Argentine Patagonia	5
Reliability of biological maturation analyses performed by equations predicting skeletal age and peak height velocity with hand and wrist X‐ray results	5
Waist circumference percentiles for Hispanic‐American children and comparison with other international references	5
Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador	4
Human biology is a matter of life or death: Effective science communication for COVID‐19 research	4
When the flood passes, does health return? A short panel examining water and food insecurity, nutrition, and disease after an extreme flood in lowland Bolivia	4
Athletes in sporting events with upper‐body gripping movements have greater handgrip strength than those in sporting events that prioritize the lower body	4
Family characteristics, perceived environment for physical activity, and childhood obesity: An approach with structural equation models	4
Secular changes in the anthropometric and motor characteristics of Polish male university students between 2000 and 2018	4
The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland	4
Effects of energy and essential fatty acids content in breast milk on infant's head dimensions	4
Cardiovascular diseases display etiological and seasonal trend in human population: Evidence from seasonal cardiovascular comorbid diseases (SCCD) index	4
Skeletal manifestations of disease experience: Length of illness and porous cranial lesion formation in a contemporary juvenile mortality sample	4
Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists	4
Body composition helps: Differences in energy expenditure between pregnant and nonpregnant females	4
Human Biologists confront theCOVID‐19 pandemic	4
Scoliosis and skeletal muscle mass are strongly associated with low back pain‐related disability in humans: An evolutionary anthropology point of view	4
Repeatability of adaptive traits among ethnic Tibetan highlanders	4
Trends in growth and developmental tempo in boys aged 7 to 18 years between 1966 and 2012 in Poland	4
Body surface area equations for physically active men and women	4
Biocultural pathways linking periodontal disease expression to food insecurity, immune dysregulation, and nutrition	4
Body adiposity index to analyze the percentage of fat in young men aged between 7 and 17 years	4
Low birth weight and its relation to physical fitness parameters in children: Its negative effect on muscle strength and cardiorespiratory endurance	4
Segmented physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns among children in Maasai village and Nairobi city	4
Validity and reliability of Meu Educativo®: A new tool to assess fundamental movement skills in school‐aged children	4
Physical activity levels among the adults of Majha region of Punjab, India: A cross‐sectional study	4
Adolescent growth and BMI and their associations with early childhood growth in an urban South African cohort	4
The impact of winter warming and more frequent icing events on reindeer herder occupational safety, health, and wellbeing	4
Ecoimmunology in the field: Measuring multiple dimensions of immune function with minimally invasive, field‐adapted techniques	4
Body size at birth in babies born during World War II: The evidence from Poland	4
Re‐examining Biocultural Approaches in Human Biology	4
Association between type 2 diabetes mellitus & TCF7L2 gene variants in the Emirati population: Genetics of diabetes in the United Arab Emirates	4
Symptoms at midlife among women in Nagaland, India	4

Age variation in blood pressure: Rural–urban and sex differences among the Hmar adults of Manipur, Northeast India	3
The relationship between the digit ratio (2D:4D) and vertical jump performance in young athletes	3
Determinants of infant carrying behavior in rural Papua New Guinea	3
Body height, weight, and Body Mass Index – magnitude and pace of secular changes in children and adolescents from Kraków (Poland) between 1983 and 2020	3
Nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections, and socio‐environmental conditions in Mbyá‐guaraní children: The current situation in communities incentral Misiones, Argentina	3
Associations between autoimmune dysfunction and pollutants in Akwesasne Mohawk women: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and polychlorinated biphenyl exposure	3
Coping mechanisms during the COVID‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa: A qualitative study	3
Trekking and toddlers: Towards a biocultural analysis of growth among infants and young children in a rural region of the Himalayas	3
The pace of secular changes of body measurements of children and adolescents from Kolkata (India) in the context of socioeconomic inequalities between the sexes	3
Changes in blood pressure, oxygen saturation, hemoglobin concentration, and heart rate among low‐altitude migrants living at high altitude (5380 m) for 360 days	3
Secular changes in the waist, hips circumferences and selected associated indicators, among preschool children from Kraków (Poland), between 1983 and 2018	3
The dietary impacts of drought in a traditional pastoralist economy	3
Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration	3
Association of sleep duration with underweight and obesity in older adults: A cross‐sectional study of the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey	3
Minimally invasive biomarkers in human and non‐human primate evolutionary biology: Tools for understanding variation and adaptation	3
Correlations between dental wear and oral cavity characteristics: Mandibular torus, palatine torus, and oral exostoses	3
Birth weight and body composition in 6‐to‐8 years old Maya children	3
Why does strength training improve endurance performance?	3
MC1R diversity and its role in skin pigmentation variation in West Maharashtra, India	3
A longitudinal study of handgrip strength asymmetry	3
What is normal body weight? Perceptions around “average” and “healthy” body weight among adolescents in Indiana	3
Relationship between rs9939609 FTO polymorphism with waist circumference and body fat is moderated by ponderal index at birth in youth	3
The Great Recession weighted on Portuguese children: A structural equation modeling approach considering eating patterns	3
Energy intake and expenditure in children and adolescents, contributions of biological maturity	3
Child, caretaker, and community: Testing predictors of anemia and response to iron supplementation in Peruvian preschool‐aged children	3
Influence of ecoregional and lifestyle factors on growth and body composition of Indian children and adolescents aged 9–18 years—A multicenter study	3
Pelvic and neonatal size correlations in light of evolutionary hypotheses	3
Effects of spot size on biomarker levels of field‐collected dried blood spots: A new algorithm for exact dried blood spot size measurement	3
Understanding the devastating second wave of COVID‐19 pandemic in India	3
Not a matter of shape: The influence of tool characteristics on electrodermal activity in response to haptic exploration of Lower Palaeolithic tools	3
Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence	3
Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in Hawaii: Levels and sources of serum vitamin D in older adults	3
The impact of COVID‐19 on the number of births in Yucatan, Mexico	3
What is the best anthropometric predictor for identifying higher risk for cardiovascular diseases in afro‐descendant Brazilian women? A cross‐sectional population‐based study	3
Proportionality indices, geographic altitude, and gestational age in newborns from Jujuy, Argentina	3
Nightly fasting duration is not associated with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among non‐shift workers: The Furukawa Nutrition and Health Studymx	3
Human cold adaptation: An unfinished agenda v2.0	3
Familial allomaternal care exposure is predictive of infant development	3
Adverse heat‐health outcomes and critical environmental limits (Pennsylvania State University Human Environmental Age Thresholds project)	3
Severe cyclones and sex‐specific birth outcomes in Queensland, Australia: An interrupted time‐series analysis	3
Influence of climatic stress on nonmetric sexually dimorphic features of the skull and pelvis	3
Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach	3
Changes in the prevalence of undernutrition, overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and Misiones provinces (Argentina) over the last two decades	3
Evaluation of the frequency of third molar agenesis according to different age groups	3
Body size and weight status of adult Indian males born in the 1890s–1950s: Age and secular change in the context of demographic, economic, and political transformation	3
Comparative analysis of the growth and development differences of children and adolescents between developed and undeveloped urban and rural areas in China	3
Variability of C‐reactive protein in first‐generation Ecuadorian immigrants living in the United States	3
Assessment of skeletal age in youth female soccer players: Agreement between Greulich‐Pyle and Fels protocols	3
The influence of socioeconomic status and age on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 5 to 10‐year‐old children in Curitiba, Brazil	3
Growth patterns of normo‐nourished Afghan, Haitian and Congolese children aged 6–59 months: A comparative study	3
Association of household fuel use with hypertension and blood pressure among adult women in rural Bangladesh: A cross‐sectional study	3
Sex differences in adipose development in a hunter‐gatherer population	3
Water insecurity, self‐reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazon	3
Body adiposity measures and risk of adolescent hypertension among the postpubescents Northeast India	3
Investigating the normalization and normative views of gestational weight gain: Balancing recommendations with the promotion and support of healthy pregnancy diets	3
Selection in utero against male twins in the United States early in the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
The timing of adrenarche in Maya girls, Merida, Mexico	3
Comparison of handgrip strength values in young children when using two different types of dynamometers	3
Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families	3