Associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Human biologist, biological anthropologist, feminist human evolution, sports enthusiast.
https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/
Cara Ocobock
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Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/
Why am I a bit terrified sharing this? Well, it seems anytime females are centered as a driving force in human evolution there is a vehement backlash. I have girded myself for the coming onslaught.
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However, what is less well knows is what genes and subsequent physiological pathways/regulation are similar between pregnancy and endurance. There should also be a comparative examination across endurance mammals and endurance birds.
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Finally, I present how this idea could be tested & some potentially more fruitful routes for inquiry. For example, it is fairly well established, though it could be more thorough, that cardiac, respiratory, and metabolic changes associated with pregnancy are rather consistent across mammals.
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I then move to how this may have come about evolutionarily. The development of striding bipedalism lead to pregnancy-related physiological processes being co-opted for endurance capacities. I lay out why this would be true for females & males.
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