Peer-Reviewed Articles
In press Manus MB, Watson E, Kuthyar S, Carba D, Belarmino NM, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, Amato KR. Prenatal household size and composition are associated with infant fecal bacterial diversity in Cebu, Philippines. Am J Biol Anthropol.
2023 Kim AW, Said Mohamed R, Norris SA, Richter LM, Kuzawa CW. Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 64(1):110-124
2022 Kuzawa CW, Ryan CP, Adair LS, Lee NR, Carba DB, MacIsaac JL, Dever K, Atashzay P, Kobor MS, McDade TW, “Birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy as predictors of epigenetic age acceleration in young adults from metropolitan Cebu, Philippines” Epigenetics 17(11):1535-45.
2022 Rosenbaum S, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Avila J, Bechayda SA, Gettler LT. “Neither environmental harshness nor unpredictability predict reliance on alloparental care among families in Cebu, Philippines”. Development and Psychopathology 34(2):743-754.
2022 Aronoff J, Ragin A, Wu C, Markl M, Schnell S, Shaibani A, Blair C, Kuzawa CW, “Why do humans undergo an adiposity rebound? Exploring links with the energetic costs of brain development in childhood using MRI-based 4D measures of total cerebral blood flow.” Intl J Obesity 46(5):1044-50.
2022 Ryan CP, Rege RJ, Lee NR, Carba DB, Kobor MS, MacIsaac JL, Lin DS, Atashzay P, Kuzawa CW. “Maternal epigenetic clocks measured during pregnancy do not predict gestational age at delivery or offspring birth outcomes: a replication study in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines.” Clin Epigenetics 14(1): 78l
2022 Gettler LT, Rosenbaum S, Kuo PX, Sarma MS, Bechayda SA, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW. “Evidence for an adolescent sensitive period to family experiences influencing adult male testosterone production.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 119(23):e2202874119.
2022 Meloni M, Moll T, Issaka A, Kuzawa CW. “A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era” Amer J Hum Biol. 11:e23742
2022 Ryan CP, Jones MJ, Edgar RD, Lee NR, Kobor MS, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Immune cell type and DNA methylation vary with reproductive status in women: possible pathways for costs of reproduction” Evol Med Public Health, 10(1):47-58
2021 Rosenbaum S, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Avila J, Bechayda SA, Gettler LT. “Fathers’ care in context: ‘facultative,’ flexible fathers respond to work demands and child age, but not to alloparental help, in Cebu, Philippines”. Evol Hum Behav 42(6)534-546.
2021 Rosenbaum S, Echardt W, Stoinski TS, Umuhoza R, Kuzawa CW, Santymire R. “Group structure, but not dominance rank, predicts fecal androgen metabolite concentrations of wild male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)”. Amer J Primatol 83(8):e23295.
2021 Ryan CP, Kuzawa CW. “The temporary cost of dominance”. Elife 10:e68790
2021 Amato KR, Arrieta M, Azad MB, Bailey MT, Broussard JL5, Bruggeling CE, Claud EC, Costello EK, Davenport ER, Dutilh BE, Swain Ewald HA, Ewald P, Hanlon EC, Julion W, Keshavarzian A, Maurice CF, Miller G, Preidis G, Segurel L, Singer B, Subramanian S, Zhao L, Kuzawa CW “The Human Microbiome and Health Inequities” Proc Nat Acad Sciences
2020 Kuzawa CW, “Pregnancy as an intergenerational conduit of adversity: how nutritional and psychosocial stressors reflect different historical timescales of maternal experience” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sci 36: 42-47
2020 Kim AW, Adam EK, Bechayda SA, Kuzawa CW, “Early life stress and HPA axis function independently predict adult depressive symptoms in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines Am J Phys Anthropol 173(3):448-62.
2020 Ryan CP, Kuzawa CW “Germline epigenetic inheritance: Challenges and opportunities for linking human paternal experience with offspring biology and health” Evol Anthropol 29(4):180-200.
2020 Kuzawa CW, Adair L, Bechayda SA, Borja JB, Carba DB, Duazo PL, Eisenberg DTA, Georgiev AV, Gettler LT, Lee NR, Quinn EA, Rosenbaum S, Rutherford J, Ryan C, McDade TW, “Evolutionary life history theory as an organizing framework for cohort studies: insights form the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey” Annals Hum Biol 47(2):94-105.
2020 Thayer ZM, Rutherford J, Kuzawa CW “The Maternal Buffering Model: An evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention” Evol Med Public Health 2020(1):14-17.
2020 Blair C, Kuzawa CW, Willoughby MT. “The development of executive function in early childhood is inversely related to change in body mass index: Evidence for an energetic trade-off?” Develop Sci 23(1)e12860.
2020 Eisenberg DTA, Rej PH, Duazo P, Carba D, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW. “Testing for paternal influences on offspring telomere length in a human cohort in the Philippines” Am J Phys Anthropol 171(3):520-528.
2020 McDade TW, Borja J, Lee N, Aquino CT, Barrett T, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW “C-reactive protein response to influenza vaccination predicts cardiovascular disease risk in the Philippines” Biodemography Soc Biol 65(1)88-96.
2019 Kuzawa CW, Blair C. “A hypothesis linking the energy demand of the brain to lifetime obesity risk.” Proc Nat Acad Sciences 116(27):13266-75.
2019 McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, Borja J, Arevalo JMG, Miller G, Cole SW, “Profiles of gene expression in maternal blood predict offspring birth weight in normal pregnancy” J Dev Orig Health Dis 10(6)676-682.
2019 Sania A, Sudfield CR…Kuzawa C…Ezzati M, Fawzi W, “Early life risk factors for motor, cognitive, and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries”. BMJ Open 9(10):e026449
2019 Rutherford JN, deMartelly VA, Ragsdale HB, Avila JL, Lee NR, Kuzawa CW, “Global population variation in placental size and structure: Evidence from Cebu, Philippines.” Placenta 85:40-48.
2019 Masterson EE, Hayes MB, Kuzawa CW, Lee NR, Eisenberg DTA. “Early life growth and adult telomere length in a Filipino cohort study” Am J Hum Biol 31(6)e23299.
2019 Eisenberg DTAE, Lee NR, Rej PH, Hayes, MG, Kuzawa CW (2019), “Older paternal ages and grandpaternal ages at conception predict longer telomeres in human descendants” Proc Roy Soc B 286(1903):20190800.
2019 Bütikofer A, Figlio D, Karbownik K, Kuzawa CW, Salvanes KG “Prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins” Proc Nat Acad Sciences 116(14):6749-53.
2019 McDade TW, Ryan CP, Hoke MK, Jones MJ, Edgar RD, Borja J, Miller G, Kuzawa CW, Kobor MS. “Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in relation to socioeconomic status during development and early adulthood” Am J Phys Anthropol 169(1):3-11.
2019 Kuzawa CW, Barrett TM, Borja JB, Lee NR, Aquino CT, Adair LS, McDade TW. “Ankle brachial index (ABI) in a cohort of older women in the Philippines: Prevalence of peripheral artery disease and predictors of ABI Amer J Hum Biol 31(3):e23237.
2019 Harrington A, Kuzawa CW, Boyer DM “Carotid foramen size in the human skull tracks developmental changes in cerebral blood flow and brain metabolism” Am J Phys Anthropol 169(1):161-169.
2019 Rosenbaum S, Gettler LT, McDade TW, Belarmino NM, Kuzawa CW, “The effects of collection and storage conditions in the field on salivary testosterone, cortisol, and sIgA values” Annals Hum Biol 45(5):428-34.
2019 Ragsdale HB, Kuzawa CW, Borja JB, Avila JL, McDade TW. “Regulation of inflammation during gestation and birth outcomes: Inflammatory cytokine balance predicts birth weight and length” Am J Hum Biol 31(3):e23245.
2019 Gettler, LT, Kuo PX, Rosenbaum S, Avila JL, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW. “Sociosexuality, Testosterone, and Life History Status: Prospective Associations and Longitudinal Changes among Men in Cebu, Philippines” Evol Hum Behav 40(2): 249-58.
2018 Sarma MS, Kuo PX, Bechayda SA, Kuzawa CW, Gettler LT “Exploring the links between early life and young adulthood social experiences and men’s later life psychobiology as fathers” Physiol Behav 193(Pt A):82-89.
2018 Eisenberg DTA, Kuzawa CW. “The paternal age at conception effect on offspring telomere length: mechanistic, comparative and adaptive perspectives.” Philos Trans R Soc Long B Biol Sci 373(1741)
2018 Rosenbaum S, Gettler LT, McDade T, Augustin S, & Kuzawa CW. “Does men’s testosterone ‘rebound’ when dependent children grow up, or when pair bonds end? A test in Cebu, Philippines”. Am J of Hum Biol. 30(6):e23180.
2018 Sweet E, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW “Short-term lending: Payday loans as risk factors for anxiety, inflammation and poor health” Social Science Med – Population Health 5:114-121
2018 Tennyson RL, Gettler LT, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, Agustin SS, Eisenberg DTA, “Lifetime socioeconomic status and early life microbial environments predict adult blood telomere length in the Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 30(5):e23145.
2018 Rosenbaum S, Vigilant L, Kuzawa CW, Stoinski TS. “Caring for infants is associated with increased reproductive success for male mountain gorillas”. Sci Reports, 8(1):15223.
2018 Thayer ZM, Bechayda SA, Kuzawa CW, “Circadian cortisol dynamics across reproductive stages and in relation to breastfeeding in the Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 30(4):e23115.
2018 Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, McDade T, Carba DB, Borja JB. “Seventeen-year changes in body mass index, waist circumference, elevated blood pressure, and diabetes phenotypes in a cohort of Filipino women” Asia Pac J Public Health, 30(6):561-571
2018 Ryan CP, Hayes MG, Lee NR, McDade TW, Jones MJ, Kobor MS, Kuzawa CW, Eisenberg DTA “Reproduction predicts shorter telomeres and epigenetic age acceleration among young adult women” Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 23;8(1):11100
2018 Del Giudice M, Hartman S, Martel M, Barrett E, Belsky J, Sangenstedt S, Kuzawa CW, “Individual Differences in Developmental Plasticity: A Role for Early Androgens?” Psychoneuroendocrinology 90:165-173.
2018 Kuzawa CW “Which environments matter in studies of early-life developmental plasticity?” Evol Med Public Health 2017(1): 188-190.
2018 Kyweluk M, Georgiev A, Borja JB, Gettler LT, Kuzawa CW, “Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines” Evol Hum Behav 39(1): 76-81.
2017 Kuzawa CW, Fried RL, Borja JB, McDade TW “Maternal pregnancy C-reactive protein predicts offspring birth size and body composition in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines” J DOHaD. 8(6): 674-681.
2017 McDade TW, Jones M, Miller G, Borja J, Kobor MS, Kuzawa CW “Birth weight and postnatal microbial exposures predict the distribution of peripheral leukocyte subsets in young adults in the Philippines” J DOHaD. 11:1-10
2017 Müller R, Hanson C, Hanson M, Penkler M, Samaras G, Chiapperino L, Dupré J, Kenney M, Kuzawa C, Latimer J, Lloyd S, Lunkes A, Macdonald M, Meloni M, Nerlich B, Panese F, Pickersgill M, Richardson S, Rüegg J, Schmitz S, Stelmach A, Villa PI, “The biosocial genome? Interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental epigenetics, health and society” EMBO Reports 18(10):1677-1682.
2017 McDade TW, Ryan C, Jones M, MacIsaac JL, Morin AM, Meyer J, Borja J, Miller G, Kobor MS, Kuzawa CW, “Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood” Proc Nat Acad Sci 114(29): 7611-16.
2017 Georgiev AV, Ryan CP, Borja JB, Kuzawa CW, “Is early postnatal growth velocity, a proxy of minipubertal androgen action, related to adult second‐to‐fourth digit (2D: 4D) ratios in men? A test in Cebu, Philippines”. Am J Hum Biol 29(6):e23047.
2017 Anton S, Kuzawa CW, “Early Homo, plasticity, and the extended evolutionary synthesis” Interface Focus 7(5):20170004
2017 Fried RL, Mayol NL, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW “Maternal metabolic adaptations to pregnancy among young women in Cebu, Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 29(5).
2017 Georgiev AV, Ryan CP, Gettler LT, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) is unrelated to measures of somatic reproductive effort among young men from Cebu, The Philippines” Amer J Phys Anthropol 163(3):437-445
2017 Eisenberg DTAE, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW “Early life infection, but not breastfeeding, predicts adult blood telomere lengths in the Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 29(4).
2017 Ryan CP, McDade TW, Gettler LT, Eisenberg DT, Rzhetskaya M, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW, “Androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal function in Filipino young adult males” Amer J Hum Biol 29(1)
2017 Ryan CP, Georgiev AV, McDade TW, Gettler LT, Eisenberg DT, Rzhetskaya M, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW, “Androgen receptor polyglutamine repeat length (AR-CAGn) modulates the effect of testosterone on androgen-associated somatic traits in Filipino young adult men” Amer J Phys Anthropol 163(2): 317-327
2017 Bethancourt HJ, Kratz M, Beresford SA, Hayes MG, Kuzawa CW, Duazo PL, Borja JB, Eisenberg DT, “No association between blood telomere length and longitudinally assessed diet or adiposity in a young adult Filipino population” Eur J Nutr 56(1):295-308.
2017 Gettler LT, Ryan CP, Eisenberg DT, Rzhetskaya M, Hayes MG, Feranil AB, Bechayda SA, Kuzawa CW, “The role of testosterone in coordinating male life history strategies: The moderating effects of the androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism” Horm Behav 87:164-175.
2016 Kuzawa CW, Georgiev AV, McDade TW, Agustin Bechayda S, Gettler LT “Is there a testosterone awakening response in humans?” Adap Hum Behav Physiol 2(2):166-83.
2016 McDade Tw, Borja JB, Largado F, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW. “Adiposity and chronic inflammation in young women predict inflammation during normal pregnancy in the Philippines” J Nutr 146(2):353-7.
2016 Georgiev A, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, “Early developmental exposures shape trade-offs between acquired and innate immunity in humans” Evol Med Public Health 2016(1):256-69.
2016 Lipovich L, Hou ZC, Jia H, Sinkler C, McGowen M, Sterner KN, Weckle A, Sugalski AB, Pipes L, Gatti DL, Mason CE, Sherwood CC, Hof PR, Kuzawa CW, Grossman LI, Goodman M, Wildman DE, “High-throughput RNA sequencing reveals structural differences of orthologous brain-expressed genes between western lowland gorillas and humans”. J Comp Neurol 524(2):288-308.
2016 McDade TW, Georgiev A, Kuzawa CW, “Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans” Evol Med Public Health 2016(1):1-16.
2015 Workman M, McDade T, Adair L, Kuzawa C, “Slow early growers have more muscle in relation to adult activity: Evidence from Cebu, Philippines” Eur J Clin Nutr 69(12):1350-5.
2015 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Bragg JM, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Developmental energetics, sibling death, and parental instability as predictors of maturational tempo and life history scheduling in males from Cebu, Philippines” Am J Physiol Anthropol 158:175-84
2015 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Agustin SS, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Longitudinal perspectives on fathers’ residence status, time allocation, and testosterone in the Philippines” Adapt Hum Behav Physiol 1:124-149.
2015 Eisenberg DTAE, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG “Improving qPCR telomere length assays: Controlling for well position effects increases statistical power” Am J Hum Biol 27(4): 570-5.
2015 DeSantis AS, Kuzawa CW, Adam EK “Developmental origins of flatter cortisol rhythms: Socioeconomic status and adult cortisol” Am J Hum Biol 27(4): 458-67.
2015 Quinn EA, Largado F, Borja JB, Kuzawa CW, “Maternal characteristics associated with milk leptin content in a sample of Filipino women and associations with infant weight for age” J Hum Lactation 31(2):273-81.
2015 Thayer ZM, Kuzawa CW “Ethnic discrimination predicts poor self-rated health and cortisol in pregnancy: Insights from New Zealand” Soc Sci Med 128: 36-42.
2015 McDade TW, Borja JB, Kuzawa CW, Perez TL, Adair LS. “C-reactive protein response to influenza vaccination as a model of mild inflammatory stimulation in the Philippines.” Vaccine. 21;33(17):2004-8
2015 Addo OY, Stein AD, Fall CHD, Gigante DP, Guntupalli AM, Horta BL, Kuzawa CW, Lee N, Norris SA, Osmond C, Prabhakaran P, Richter LM, Sachdev HPS, Martorell R, on behalf of the COHORTS Group. “Parental childhood growth and offspring birth weight: pooled analyses from four birth cohorts in low and middle income countries” Am J Hum Biol 27(1):99-105.
2014 Thayer ZM, Kuzawa CW, “Early origins of health disparities: Material deprivation predicts maternal evening cortisol in pregnancy and offspring cortisol reactivity in the first few weeks of life” Am J Hum Biol 26(5):598-602.
2014 Kuzawa CW, Grossman LI, Lipovich L, Muzik O, Hof PR, Wildman DE, Sherwood CC, Chugani HT, Leonard WR, Lange N, “Energetic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development” Proc Nat Acad Sci 111(36):13010-5.
2014 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Agustin SS, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Testosterone, immune function, and life history transitions in Filipino males (Homo sapiens)” Intl J Primatology 35:787-804.
2014 Kuzawa CW, “Why evolutionary biology is crucial for effective public health policy: comment on Hicks and Leonard” Current Anthropology 55(5):542-3.
2014 Richardson SS, Daniels CR, Gillman MW, Golden J, Kukla R, Kuzawa C, Rich-Edwards J, “Society: Don’t blame the mothers”, Nature 512(7513):131-2.
2014 Chung GC, Kuzawa CW, “Assessing the intergenerational effects of early life nutrition: Maternal leg length but not trunk length predicts offspring placental weight and birth weight in the Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 26(5):652-659.
2014 Lee J, Fried R, Thayer Z, Kuzawa CW, “Preterm delivery as a predictor of diurnal cortisol profiles in adulthood: Evidence from Cebu, Philippines” Am J Hum Biol 26(5):598-602.
2014 Bogin B, Bragg JB, Kuzawa CW, “Humans are not cooperative breeders but practice biocultural reproduction” Ann Hum Biol 41(4):368-80.
2014 Gettler LT, Agustin S, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Salivary estradiol and testosterone in Filipino men: Diurnal patterns and relationships with adiposity” Am J Hum Biol 26(3):376-83.
2014 Wu Y, Gao H, Li H, Tabara Y…Kuzawa CW…Mohlke KL, Tai ES, “A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adiponectin level in East Asians identifies a novel locus near WDR11-FGFR2.” Hum Molecular Genetics 23(4):1108-19.
2014 Zubair N, Kuzawa CW, Lee NR, McDade TW, Adair LS, “Clustering and determinants of cardiometabolic risk factors among Filipino young adults.” Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 23(1):148-58.
2013 Lipovich L, Tarca, AL, Cai B, Jia H, Chugani HT, Sterner KN, Grossman LI, Uddin M, Hof PR, Sherwood CC, Kuzawa C, Goodman M, Wildman DE, “Developmental changes in the transcriptome of human cerebral cortex tissue: long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) transcripts” Cerebral Cortex 24(6): 1451-9.
2013 Gettler LT, Agustin S, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Do testosterone declines during the transition to marriage and fatherhood relate to men’s sexual behavior? Evidence from the Philippines” Horm Behav 64(5):755-63.
2013 Stein AD, Barros FC, Bhargava SK, Hao W, Horta BL, Lee N, Kuzawa CW, Martorell R, Ramji S, Stein A, Richter L, The COHORTS Group, “Birth Status, Child Growth and Adult Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” J Pediatrics 163(6): 1740-1746.
2013 Kuzawa CW. “Editorial: You are what your mother ate?” Am J Clin Nutr 97(6):1157-1158.
2013 Wu Y, Marvelle AF, Li J, Croteau-Chonka DC, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, Li Y, Adair LS, Mohlke KL, “Genetic association with lipids in CLHNS: waist circumference modifies an APOA5 effect on triglyceride levels” J Lipid Res 54(11):3198-205.
2013 van Noordwijk MA, Kuzawa CW, van Schaik CP, “The evolution of the patterning of human lactation: a comparative perspective” Evol Anthropol. 22: 202-212.
2013 Bianchi S, Stimpson CD, Duka T, Larsen MD, Janssen WG, Collins Z, Bauernfeind AL, Schapiro SJ, Baze WB, McArthur MJ, Hopkins WD, Wildman DE, Lipovich L, Kuzawa CW, Jacobs B, Hof PR, Sherwood CC. “Synaptogenesis and development of pyramidal neuron dendritic morphology in the chimpanzee neocortex resembles humans”. Proc Nat Acad Sci 110 Suppl 2:10395-10401.
2013 van Noordwijk MA, Willems EP, Atmoko SSU, Kuzawa CW, van Schaik CP, “Multi-year lactation and its consequences in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) Behav Ecol Sociobiol 67(5): 805-814.
2013 Addo OY, Stein AD, Fall CH, Gigante DP, Guntupalli AM, Horta BL, Kuzawa CW, Lee N, Norris SA, Prabhakaran P, Richter LM, Sachdev HS, Martorell R, The COHORTS Group, “Maternal height and child growth patterns” J Pediatrics 163(2):549-54.
2013 Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, Borja J, McDade TW, “C-reactive protein by pregnancy and lactational status among Filipino young adult women” Am J Hum Biol 25(1):131-4
2013 Sterner KN, McGowen MR, Chugani HT, Tarca AL, Sherwood CC, Hof PR, Kuzawa CW, Boddy AM, Raaums RL, Weckle A, Lipovich L, Grossman LI, Uddin M, Goodman M, Wildman ED, “Characterization of human cortical gene expression in relation to glucose utilization.” Am J Hum Biol 25(3):418-430.
2013 McDade TW, Hoke M, Borja J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Do environments in infancy moderate the association between stress and inflammation in adulthood? Preliminary evidence from a birth cohort in the Philippines” Brain Behav Immun 31:23-30.
2013 Gettler LT, Agustin S, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Progesterone and estrogen responsiveness to father-toddler interaction” Am J Hum Biol 25(4):491-498.
2013 Eisenberg DTA, Kuzawa CW, “Commentary: The evolutionary biology of the paternal age effect on telomere length” Int J Epidemiol 42(2):462-5.
2013 McDade TW, Borja JB, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Depressive symptoms are not associated with inflammation in younger and older adults in the Philippines” Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (1):18-23
2012 Miller DJ, Duka T, Stimpson CD, Schapiro SJ, Baze WB, McArthur MJ, Fobbs AJ, Wildman ED, Lipovich L, Kuzawa CW, Hof PR, Sherwood CC, “Evolution of prolonged myelin growth in the cerebral cortex of humans compared to chimpanzees” Proc Nat Acad Sci 109(41): 16480-5.
2012 Horikoshi M, Yaghootar H, Mook-Kanamoori DO…Kuzawa CW…Freathy RM, for the Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium, “Novel loci associated with birth weight reveal genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism” Nature Genetics 45(1):76-82.
2012 Kuzawa CW, Bragg JM, “Plasticity in human life history strategy: Implications for contemporary human variation and the evolution of genus Homo” Current Anthropology, 53(Suppl. 6), s369-s382.
2012 Sterner KN, Weckle A, Chugani HT, Tarca AL, Sherwood CC, Hoff PR, Kuzawa CW, Boddy AM, Raaum RL, Grégoire L, Lipovich L, Grossman LI, Uddin M, Goodman M, Wildman DE, “Dynamic gene expression in the human cerebral cortex distinguishes children from adults” PLoS ONE 7(5): e37714.
2012 Eisenberg DTAE, Hayes, MG, Kuzawa CW, “Evidence that delaying paternal age of reproduction in humans lengthens telomeres across two generations of descendants” Proc Nat Acad Sci 109(26):10251-6.
2012 Bragg JM, Banerjee MN, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, “Age at menarche and parity are independently associated with anti-Müllerian hormone, a marker of ovarian reserve, in Filipino young adult women” Am J Hum Biol, 24(6): 739-45.
2012 Gettler LT, McKenna JJ, McDade TW, Agustin SB, Kuzawa CW, “Does co-sleeping contribute to lower testosterone levels in fathers? Evidence from the Philippines” PLoS ONE 7(9): e41559.
2012 Alcock J, Franklin ML, Kuzawa CW, “Nutrient signaling: the evolutionary origins of the immune modulating effects of dietary fat” Quart Rev Biology, 87(3):187-223.
2012 Kuzawa CW, Eisenberg DTAE, “Intergenerational predictors of birth weight in the Philippines: Correlations with mother’s and father’s birth weight and a test of the maternal constraint hypothesis” PLoS ONE 7(7):e40905.
2012 EA Quinn, Kuzawa CW, “Dose-response relationship between fish consumption and human milk DHA content among Filipino women in Cebu City, Philippines” Acta Paediatrica 101(10):e439-45.
2012 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Prolactin, fatherhood, and reproductive behavior in human males” Amer J Phys Anthropol, 148(3):362-70
2012 Quinn EA, Largo F, Power M, Kuzawa CW, “Predictors of breast milk composition in Filipino mothers” Amer J Hum Biol, 24(4): 533-40.
2012 Martinez-Cordero C, Kuzawa C, Sloboda DM, Stewart J, Simpson SJ and Raubenheimer D, “Testing the protein leverage hypothesis in a free-living human population” Appetite, 59(2):312-315.
2012 Tallman PS, Kuzawa C, Adair LS, Borja J, McDade TW, “Microbial exposures in infancy predict levels of the immunoregulatory cytokine interleukin-4 in Filipino young adults” Amer J Hum Biol, 24(4):446-53.
2012 Kuzawa CW, Tallman PS, Adair LS, Lee N, McDade TW, “Inflammatory profiles in the non-pregnant state predict offspring birth weight: evidence for intergenerational effects of low grade inflammation” Ann Hum Biol, 39(4):267-74.
2012 Wu Y, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, Borja J, Li Y, Adair LS, Mohlke KL, Lange LA, “Genome-wide Association with C-Reactive Protein Levels in CLHNS: Evidence for the CRP and HNF1A Loci and their Interaction with Pathogen Exposure.” Inflammation 35(2):574-83.
2012 Dastani Z, Hivert MF, Timpson N…Kuzawa CW…Ridker PM, Rader DJ, Kathiresan S, “Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals” PLoS Genet 8(3):e1002607.
2012 Kuzawa CW “Why evolution needs development, and medicine needs evolution” Int’l J Epidemiol, 43: 223-229.
2012 Zubair N, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Adair LS, “Cluster analysis reveals important determinants of cardiometabolic risk patterns in Filipino women.” Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 21(2):271-81.
2012 Croteau-Chonka DC, Wu Y, Li Y, Fogarty MP, Lange LA, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Borja JB, Luo J, AbdelBaky O, Combs T, Adair LS, Lange EM, Mohlke KL, “Population-specific coding variant underlies genome-wide association with adiponectin level” Hum Mol Genet. 21(2):463-71.
2012 Thayer, Z, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Maternal cortisol disproportionately impacts fetal growth in male offspring: evidence from the Philippines” Amer J Hum Biol. 24(1):1-4.
2012 Kuzawa CW, Hallal PC, Adair LS, Bhargava S, Fall CHD, Lee N, Norris S, Osmond C, Ramirez-Zea M, Sachdev HS, Stein AD, Victora CG, and COHORTS group, “Birth weight, postnatal weight gain and adult body composition in five low and middle income country cohorts” Amer J Hum Biol 24(1):5-13.
2012 Norris SA, Osmond C, Gigante D, Kuzawa CW, Lakshmy R, Lee NR, Ramirez-Zea M, Richter L, Stein AD, Tandon N, Fall CHD and COHORTS group, “Size at birth, weight gain in infancy and childhood, and prevalence of diabetes in five low- or middle-income country birth cohorts” Diabetes Care 35(1):72-79.
2011 Curocichin G, Wu Y, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, Borja J, Qin L, Lange EM, Adair LS, Lange LL, Mohlke KL, “Single nucleotide polymorphisms at five loci are associated with C-reactive protein levels in a cohort of young adult Filipinos” J Hum Genetics 56(12):823-7
2011 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Agustin SB, Kuzawa CW, “Short-term changes in fathers’ hormones during father-child play: impacts of paternal attitudes and experience” Horm Behav 60(5):599-606.
2011 McDade TW, Tallman P, Feranil A, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Comparative insights into the regulation of inflammation: Levels and predictors of interleukin 6 and interleukin 10 in young adults in the Philippines” Amer J Phys Anthropol. 146:373-384.
2011 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Kuzawa CW, “Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males” Proc Nat Acad Sci, 108(39):16194-16199
2011 Gettler LT, McDade TW, Kuzawa CW, “Cortisol and testosterone in Filipino young adult men: Evidence for co-regulation of both hormones by fatherhood and relationship status” Amer J Hum Biol 23(5):609-620
2011 Adair LS, Popkin BM, Akin JS, Guilkey DK, Gultiano S, Borja J, Perez L, Kuzawa CW, McDade T, Hinden MJ, “Cohort Profile: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey”. Int J Epidemiol 40(3):619-25.
2011 Thayer Z, Kuzawa CW, “Biological memories of past environments: epigenetic pathways to health disparities.” Epigenetics 6(7): 798-803.
2011 McDade TW, Feranil A, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW “Positive antibody response to vaccination in adolescence predicts lower C-reactive protein concentration in young adulthood in the Philippines” Amer J Hum Biol. 23(3):313-8.
2011 Feranil AB, Duazo PL, Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, “Coconut oil is associated with a beneficial lipid profile in pre-menopausal women in the Philippines” Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 20(2): 190-5.
2011 Lester BM, Tronick E, Nestler E, Abel T, Kosofsky B, Kuzawa CW, Marsit CJ, Maze I, Meaney MJ, Monteggia LM, Reul JMHM, Skuse DH, Sweatt JD, Wood MA (2011), “Behavioral Epigenetics” Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1226: 14–33.
2011 Kuzawa CW, Thayer Z, “The timescales of human adaptation: the role of epigenetic processes” Epigenomics 3(2) 221-34.
2011 Slining MM, Kuzawa CW, Mayer-Davis EJ, Adair LS. “Evaluating the indirect effect of infant weight velocity on insulin resistance in young adulthood: Birth cohort study from the Philippines.” Amer J Epidemiol. 173(6):640-8
2011 Eisenberg DTA, Salpea KD, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, Humphries SE, “Substantial variation in qPCR measured mean blood telomere lengths in young men from eleven European countries”, Amer J Hum Biol. 23(2):228-31.
2010 Wu Y, Li Y, Lange EM, Croteau-Chonka DC, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Qin L, Curocichin G, Borja J, Lange LA, Adair LS, Mohlke KL., “Genome-wide association study for adiponectin levels in Filipino women identifies CDH13 and a novel uncommon haplotype at KNG1-ADIPOQ. Hum Mol Genet. 19(24):4955-64.
2010 Duazo P, Avila J, Kuzawa CW, “Breastfeeding and later psychosocial development in the Philippines”, Am J Hum Biol. 22(6): 725-30.
2010 Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, Lee N, McDade TW, “Rapid weight gain after birth predicts life history and reproductive strategy in Filipino males”, Proc Nat Acad Sci. 107(39):16800-5.
2010 Eisenberg DT, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, “Worldwide allele frequencies of the human apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene: climate, local adaptations and evolutionary history”, Amer J Phys Anthropol. 143:100-111.
2010 Teslovich TM, Musunuru K, Smith AV…Kuzawa CW…Kathiresan K. 2010. “Biological, Clinical, and Population Relevance of 95 Loci Mapped for Serum Lipid Concentrations”, Nature, 466, 707-713.
2010 Rutherford JN, McDade TW, Lee NR, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Change in waist circumference over 11-years and current waist circumference independently predict elevated CRP in Filipino women”, Amer J Hum Biol 22(3):310-5.
2010 Rutherford JN, McDade TW, Feranil A, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Comparing atherogenic lipid phenotypes in NHANES and the Philippines: evidence for common isolated low HDL in the Philippines” Asia Pac J Clin Nutr.19(1):57-67
2010 McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW “Early origins of inflammation: Infectious exposures in infancy predict lower levels of C-reactive protein in adulthood” Proc Royal Society B 277(1684): 1129-37.
2010 Lange LA, Croteau-Chonka DC, Marvelle AF, Qin L, Gaulton KJ, Kuzawa CW, McDade TW, Wang Y, Li Y, Levy S, Borja JB, Lange EM, Adair LS, Mohlke KL. “Genome-wide association study of homocysteine levels in Filipinos provides evidence for CPS1 in women and a stronger MTHFR effect in young adults”. Hum Mol Genet. 19(10): 2050-8.
2010 Kuzawa CW, Gettler LT, Huang Y-Y, McDade TW, “Mothers have lower testosterone than non-mothers: evidence from the Philippines”, Horm Behav. 57(4-5): 441-7.
2010 Gettler LT, Agustin S, Kuzawa CW, “Testosterone, physical activity and somatic outcomes among Filipino males,” Am J Phys Anthropol, 142(4):590-9.
2009 McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Population differences in C-reactive protein concenteration and associations with adiposity: Comparing young adults in the Philippines and the U.S.” Am J Clin Nutr
2009 Kuzawa CW, Sweet E, “Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health”. Amer J Hum Biol. 21(1): 2-15.
2009 Kuzawa CW, Quinn EA, “Developmental origins of adult function and health: Evolutionary hypotheses”, Annual Rev Anthropol, 38: 131-47.
2009 Kuzawa CW, Muller M, Gettler L, McDade TW, Feranil A, “Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines”, Horm Behav, 56: 429-35.
2008 McDade TW, Rutherford J, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW, “Adiposity and pathogen exposure predict C-reactive protein in Filipino women.” J Nutrition. 138(12):2442-7.
2008 Sharrock, K, Kuzawa, CW, Tanner, S, Leonard, WR, Reyes-Garcia, V, Vadez, V, Huanca, T, McDade, TW “Developmental changes in the relationship between leptin and adiposity in Tsimané children and adolescents”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 392-8.
2008 Heinke, D, Kuzawa, CW, “Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: Implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity”. Amer J Hum Biol 20: 538-544.
2007 Kuzawa, CW, Quinn, EA, Adair, LS, “Leptin in a lean population of Filipino adolescents”. Amer J Phys Anthropol, 132(4):642-9.
2007 Kuzawa, CW, “Developmental origins of life history: growth, productivity and reproduction”. Amer J Hum Biol 19(5):654-61.
2005 Lampl, M, Kuzawa, C, Jeanty, P, “Growth patterns of the heart and kidney suggest inter-organ collaboration in facultative fetal growth.” Amer J Hum Biol 17(2): 178-94.
2005 Kuzawa, CW, Pike, IL, “Introduction. Fetal origins of developmental plasticity”. Amer J Hum Biol 17,1-4.
2005 Kuzawa, CW, “The fetal origins of developmental plasticity: Are fetal cues reliable predictors of future nutritional environments?”. Amer J Hum Biol 17 5-21.
2004 McDade, TW, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Beck, M, “Prenatal and early postnatal environments are significant predictors of total immunoglobulin E concentration in Filipino adolescents.” Clin Exp Allergy, 34 (1) p.44-50.
2004 Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, “A supply-demand model of fetal energy sufficiency predicts lipid profiles in male but not female adolescent Filipinos”. Eur J Clin Nutr, 58(3) 438-48.
2003 Leonard, WR, Robertson, ML, Snodgrass, JJ, Kuzawa, CW, “Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution.” Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 136(1):5-15.
2003 Lampl, ML, Kuzawa, CW, Jeanty, P, “Prenatal smoke exposure alters growth in limb proportions and head shape in the midgestation fetus”, Am J Hum Biol 15(4):533-46.
2003 Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Avila, JL, Cadungog, JHC, Le, N-A, “Atherogenic lipid profiles in Filipino adolescents with low body mass index and low dietary fat intake.” Am J Hum Biol, 15(5):688-96.
2003 Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, “Lipid profiles in adolescent Filipinos: relation to birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy”. Am J Clin Nutr, 77: 960-66.
2003 Kuzawa, CW, “Modeling fetal adaptation to nutrient restriction: testing the fetal origins hypothesis with a supply-demand model”. J Nutrition, 134: 194-200.
2002 Lampl, ML, Kuzawa, CW, Jeanty, P, “Infants thinner at birth exhibit smaller kidneys for their size late in gestation in a sample of fetuses with appropriate growth”, Am J Hum Biol, 14(3): 398-406.
2001 McDade, TW, Beck, M, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, ‘Prenatal undernutrition, postnatal environments, and antibody response to vaccination in adolescence,” Am J Clin Nutr, 74(4)543-8.
2001 McDade, TW, Beck, M, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, “Prenatal undernutrition and postnatal growth are associated with adolescent thymic function”. J of Nutrition, 131: 1225-31.
2001 Adair, LS, Kuzawa, CW, Borja, J, “Maternal energy stores and diet composition during pregnancy program adolescent blood pressure” Circulation, 104(9)1034-9.
1998 Kuzawa, CW, “Adipose tissue in human infancy and childhood: an evolutionary perspective”. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 41: 177-209.
1998 Barrett, RL, Kuzawa, CW, McDade, TW, Armelagos, GA, “Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: the third epidemiologic transition”. Annual Reviews of Anthropology, 27: 247-71.
Edited Book Chapters and Other Publications
In press Kuzawa CW, Manus MB, “Evolutionary insights into the social and environmental drivers of health inequality: The example of the global epidemic of overweight and cardiovascular diseases” In Larsen CS (ed.) Companion to Biological Anthropology (2nd edition), Wiley
In press Kuzawa CW, Kim A, “Early environments, developmental plasticity, and chronic degenerative disease”, In Human Growth and Development (3nd Edition), N Cameron and L Schell (eds). Elsevier.
2018 Kuzawa CW, “Phenotype” In: Trevathan, W (ed). International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell.
2018 Kuzawa CW, “Developmental plasticity” In: Trevathan, W (ed). International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell.
2017 Kuzawa CW, Fried RL “Intergenerational memories of past nutritional deprivation: The phenotypic inertia model” In: Sherry DS, Jasienska G, Holmes DJ (eds). The Arc of Life: Evolution and Health over the Life Course. Harvard University Press
2016 Kuzawa CW, Gravlee CC “Beyond genetic race: Biocultural insights into the causes of racial health disparities” In: M Zuckerman, D Martin (eds). New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 89-106.
2016 Bogin B, Bragg J, Kuzawa C, “Childhood, biocultural reproduction and human lifetime reproductive effort” In: Meehan CL, Crittenden AN (eds). Childhood: Origins, Evolution and Implications, Santa Fe, School of Advanced Research Press pp.45-72.
2014 Kuzawa CW, Eisenberg DTA, “The long reach of history: Intergenerational and transgenerational pathways to plasticity in human longevity.” In: Advances in Biodemography: Cross-Species Comparisons of Social Environments and Social Behaviors, and their Effects on Health and Longevity, National Academies Press, pp. 65-94.
2013 Kuzawa CW, Thayer, Z, “Toppling typologies: Developmental plasticity and the environmental origins of human biological variation” Rethinking Race and Science: Biology, Genes, and Culture, Hartigan J (ed), SAR Press, pp. 43-56.
2013 Kuzawa CW, “How can we overcome the biological inertia of past deprivation? Anthropological perspectives on the developmental origins of adult health” Families and Child Health, Landale NS, McHale SM, Booth A (eds.) Springer. pp. 13-22.
2012 Kuzawa CW, “Early environments, developmental plasticity, and chronic degenerative disease”, In Human Growth and Development (2nd Edition), N Cameron and B Bogin (eds). Elsevier. pp. 325-341.
2010 Kuzawa CW, “Beyond feast-famine: brain evolution, human life history and the metabolic syndrome”, In Human Evolutionary Biology, M Muehlenbein (ed), Cambridge University Press. pp. 518-527.
2008 Kuzawa CW, Gluckman PD, Hanson MA, Beedle A, “Evolution, developmental plasticity, and metabolic disease”, In Evolution in Health and Disease (2nd Edition), SC Stearns and JC Koella (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 253-264.
2008 Kuzawa CW, “The developmental origins of adult health: intergenerational inertia in adaptation and disease” In Evolution and Health, W Trevathan, EO Smith and JJ McKenna (eds). Oxford University Press. pp. 325-349.
2007 Kuzawa, CW, Gluckman, PD, Hanson, MA, “Developmental perspectives on the origins of obesity” in Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease. E Fantuzzi and T Mazzone ed., Humana Press. pp 207-219.
2004 McDade, TW, Kuzawa, CW, “Fetal programming of immune function: The early life origins of immune function”. In: Fetal nutrition and adult disease: Programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition, SC Langley-Evans (ed.). pp. 311-332.
2001 Adair, LS, Kuzawa, CW, “Early growth retardation and syndrome X: Conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the programming hypothesis,” In: R Martorell and F Haschke, eds., Nutrition and Growth, Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Vol. 47, pp 333-350. Geneva.
1992 Kuzawa, CW, and DP Van Gerven, “Patterns of age-related bone loss (osteopenia) at Pueblo Grande.” In DP Van Gerven and SG Sheridan, eds., The Bioethnography of a Classic Hohokam Population: Nutrition, Health, and Disease at Pueblo Grande, 229-257. Phoenix. Soil Systems. (peer reviewed)
1991 Kuzawa, CW, “Patterns of age-related bone loss in a Classic Hohokam population from Pueblo Grande”. Ascent. University of Colorado. 4: 9-18.
Book Reviews
2014 Review of RL Perlman, Evolution and Medicine, For: Am J Hum Biol 26: 719.
2013 Review of JS Torday and VK Rehan, Evolutionary Biology, Cell-Cell Communication and Complex Disease, For: Quarterly Review of Biology 88: 350-351.
2012 Invited essay review – P Bateson and P Gluckman, Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Int’l J Epidemiol, 43: 223-229.
2011 Review of N Howell, Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung. Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span, University of California Press, 2010. For: American Ethnologist, 38(3): 597-98.
2010 Review of PB Gray and K Anderson, Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior. Harvard University Press, 2010. For: Ethos
2009 Review of TM Pollard, Western Diseases. An Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge University Press. 2008. For: Integrative and Comparative Biology.
2008 Review of K Hawkes, R Paine, The Evolution of Human Life History, School of American Research Press. 2006. For: Anthropos. 103(1): 260.
2007 Review of SC Cunnane, Survival of the Fattest. The Key to Human Brain Evolution. For: Amer J Phys Anthropol 132 (1):158-159.
2007 Review of RC Hauspie, N Cameron, L Molinari, Methods in Human Growth Research. Cambridge University Press. 2004. For: Anthropos. 102(1): 262.
2005 Review of J Schulkin (ed), Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation, Cambridge University Press. For: Human Biology, 77(4) 532-36.