Milk at the 2013 AAPA & HBA Meetings

Milk, Lactation, & Weaning Presentations at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and Human Biology Association Meetings April 10-13, 2013 in Knoxville, TN.  

primate art by Rob Elliot

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 

OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS

TALKS

FRIDAY AFTERNOON Session 35: LIFE HISTORY, REPRODUCTION & ENERGETICS. Ballroom B.

3:15-3:30 Rethinking lifetime reproductive effort in humans: does early weaning provide the fuel to extend the human lifespan? J.M. BRAGG, B. BOGIN, C.W. KUZAWA.

4:15-4:30 Bioactive factors in macaque milk: Relationships with maternal physiology and infant growth. R. BERNSTEIN, H. DROUGHT, M. WECHSLER, K. HINDE.

5:15-5:30 First molar eruption and life history in living wild chimpanzees. T.M. SMITH, Z. MACHANDA, A. BERNARD, R. DONOVAN, A.M. PAPAKYRIKOS, M.N. MULLER, R. WRANGHAM.

Session 36: PRIMATOLOGY: Feeding Ecology, Energy & Nutrition. Ballroom C

4:15-4:30 The meaning of weaning in wild Phayre’s leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus phayrei crepusculus).C. BORRIES, E. LARNEY, A. LU, K. OSSI-LUPO, A. KOENIG.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON Session 51: PRIMATOLOGY: Ecology, Behavior & Flexibility. 200ABC.

1:30-1:45 Weaning in the Virunga mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) – factors causing variation in weaned age. W. ECKARDT, A.W. FLETCHER.

photo by Katie MacKinnon from MPIG

POSTERS

THURSDAY MORNING Session 5: Current Bioarchaeological Research in the Near East and Circum-Mediterranean. Invited Poster Symposium. 200DE.

(9) To wean and to die – childhood life course differentials in Middle Bronze Age Sidon. H. SCHUTKOWSKI, C. THOMAS.

THURSDAY EVENING Plenary Poster Session. 5:30-8PM Session 20: PLENARY POSTERS. Park Concourse.

(22) Longitudinal changes in macronutrient and hormone concentration in orangutan milk during peak lactation. L.A. MILLIGAN, R. BERNSTEIN, L. WRIGHT, H. DROUGHT, C. LEWIS, K. MURTOUGH, M. POWER.

(23) Bioactive factors in milk: comparisons across nonhuman primates and humans. M.L. POWER, J. SCHULKIN, H. DROUGHT, K. HINDE, R.M. BERNSTEIN.

FRIDAY MORNING Session 31: HUMAN BIOLOGY. Park Concourse.

(5) Associations between metabolic hormones and macronutrients in human milk. E.A. QUINN.

HUMAN BIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

POSTERS 

(WEDNESDAY MORNING)

37. Concordant maternal-infant immunity among the Ariaal of Kenya. EM Miller, DS McConnell, TW McDade

TALKS 

(THURSDAY MORNING)

9:00-9:15 Maternal predictors of human milk leptin levels and associations with infant size. EA Quinn and CW Kuzawa

9:15-9:30 Sex differences in human milk adipocytokine concentrations.  EW Demerath, D Fields

ALSO- Not to be Missed! 

(even though its not about milk)

SATURDAY MORNING 

Session 39

Ethical Practice in Biological Anthropology: 

Continuing the Dialogue

Invited Podium Symposium

Ballroom A. 8AM-Noon

• Ethical practice in biological anthropology: An introduction to the 2013 symposium. M. SAINE, H. SHATTUCK-HEIDORN.

• Applying the Belmont principles to physical anthropology. S. STINSON.

• Ethics of field site management and oversight. K.B. CLANCY.

• Building a code of best practices for field primatology. K.C. MACKINNON, E.P. RILEY.

• Ethical questions in human reproductive ecology. M.W. REICHES.

• Laying the Yanomami to rest: The endless saga of the blood samples. K.M. WEISS.

• Informed consent and building a skeletal sample. K.M. HARTNETT.

• Ethical practices for outdoor anthropological research facilities with willed body donation programs. S.R. MAVROUDAS.

•“Stand fast and suffer long”: The ethics of repatriation. J.T. WATSON, J. MCCLELLAND, T. PITEZEL.

• Ethical challenges for biological anthropologists working in mass fatality contexts. B.J. FIGURA.

• Do biological anthropologists have an ethical obligation to identify themselves as anthropologists? Reflections at the AAPA x AAA intersection. K.B. STRIER.

• Professional publishing and professional ethics in biological anthropology. P.T. ELLISON.

• DISCUSSION, GRACIELA CABANA and TRUDY TURNER.