Human Biology Association
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The Human Biology Association is a vibrant nonprofit scientific organization dedicated to supporting and disseminating innovative research and teaching on human biological variation in evolutionary, social, historical, and environmental context worldwide.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research becomes a working conversation about human biology, with close attention to methods, intellectual history, and the people developing the ideas.
Sausage of Science turns research conversations into shop talk with the doors left open. Chris Lynn and his co-hosts interview scholars about human biology and evolutionary anthropology, asking how evidence is gathered, how theories developed, and how biological and social…
Sorority recruitment turns into an evolutionary puzzle before your rush TikTok commentary is ready.
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A sorority research project becomes a grounded look at competition, sociality, and the lives around the work.
Sausage of Science uses Alabama sororities as a way into larger questions about human sociality. Nicole Hess and Chris Lynn treat the fraternity and sorority system as a natural experiment for thinking about multi-level selection, but the episode keeps the work grounded in…
A focused look at grandmothering, hunting, tubers, and Homo erectus inside a contested anthropological argument.
Sausage of Science centers Dr. Kristen Hawkes, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, in a careful tour through the grandmother hypothesis and evolutionary anthropology.
A biocultural look at how infectious disease inequalities shift across biology, social roles, and time.
Pandemic-era infectious disease inequality comes into focus through the uneven risks tied to biology, social roles, and exposure to pathogens.
A clear, grounded tour from human wound repair to whole-body regrowth, with evolution framing the bigger question.
Regeneration comes through here as a question of scale. In this conversation with Mansi Srivastava, a Harvard professor and curator in invertebrate zoology, the subject moves from familiar human repair, like skin and liver tissue, to salamanders regrowing an arm and worms that…
Hair, teeth, fingernails, and local history become evidence in a forensic anthropology conversation.
Stable isotope work is framed here as forensic science built from ordinary biological material: hair, fingernails, and saved deciduous teeth gathered from donors, dental practices, and hospitals.
A clear, slightly loose pandemic discussion that links museum work, anthropology, and public science communication.
Sabrina Schultz uses The Human Disease, How We Create Pandemics from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs as a way into pandemics, anthropology, and public understanding.
Fast histories of familiar things.
Human origins, told from the field.
The deep past, argued into the present.
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Chris Lin and Anai host Sausage of Science, interviewing John Shaver about his work on religiosity, collectivism, and human biology, tied to a special journal issue.
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["Sausage of Science 223 centers on Taylor Ben-Jorgen's work on delayed care, tuberculosis mortality, and pandemic population health.", "Chris and Christina host the episode, and Taylor Ben-Jorgen appears as an NSF OPP postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Institute of Circumpolar Health Studies.", "Taylor describes delayed care in Southeast Alaska, where patients in 2020, 2021, and 2022 postponed blood pressure screenings, hemoglobin A1c checks, and other routine visits.", "She also walks through a Newfoundland tuberculosis study covering 1900-1949, 155,000 death records, and a female mortality pattern that runs against the usual male-skewed TB summary."]
["Mansi Srivastava discusses why the three-banded panther worm, Hofstenia miamia, can rebuild tissue, organs, and whole body plans after injury.", "She traces her path from New Delhi and Mount Holyoke to Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard, where evolutionary developmental biology pulled her back to regeneration.", "The conversation centers on three regeneration modes, the Wnt signaling mistakes that can create double-headed worms, and a gene-regulatory switch called EGR that turns on within minutes of amputation.", "Srivastava also explains why her lab is now studying pluripotent stem cells, why humans do not regrow heads, and what basic science could still reveal for wound repair and regenerative medicine."]
["Luciano Valenzuela explains Bit\u00e1cora, an isotopic database of modern human tissues in Argentina, and shows how hair, fingernails, and teeth can support forensic identification.", "Ani places the project against Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, when an estimated 30,000 people disappeared, and against present-day cases involving unidentified burials and migrants.", "Valenzuela describes how carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopes reveal diet, water sources, and regional movement across Argentina, including north-south carbon shifts and east-west nitrogen shifts.", "He also talks through the sampling workflow, the role of the Equipo Argentino de Antropolog\u00eda Forense, and why he wants Bit\u00e1cora to become a reference database for South America."]
The host introduces the Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution program and discusses the evolution education landscape in Alabama before an interview with a speaker.
A stress researcher discusses using personal biometrics to detect illness, blending personal experience with scientific insight.
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The hosts discuss their different chronotypes and the challenges of sharing a room, introducing an interview about chronobiology.
Jeremy DeSilva explains why human walking is an energy-saving “controlled fall” rather than a simple sequence of steps.
Sausage of Science uses Rob Ruck's 2018 book The Tropic of Football to examine Samoans' long journey into the NFL and anthropology's neglect of sports.