Browsing by Author "Reiches, Meredith"

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    • The adolescent transition under energetic stress: Body composition tradeoffs among adolescent women in The Gambia 

      Reiches, Meredith W.; Moore, Sophie E.; Prentice, Andrew M.; Prentice, Ann; Sawo, Yankuba; Ellison, Peter T. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Background and objectives: Life history theory predicts a shift in energy allocation from growth to reproductive function as a consequence of puberty. During adolescence, linear growth tapers off and, in females, ovarian ...

    • Female Adolescent Energy Expenditure in the Gambia 

      Reiches, Meredith Wayden (2013-02-25)
      Adolescence is a life history transition of individual and evolutionary importance: the body begins to allocate energy available above maintenance costs away from somatic growth and towards reproductive function. This study ...

    • Is Poverty in Our Genes? 

      d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade; Bestor, Theodore C; Carrasco, David L.; Flad, Rowan K.; Fosse, Ethan A; Herzfeld, Michael F; Lamberg-Karlovsky, Carl C.; Lewis, Cecil M.; Liebmann, Matthew Joseph; Meadow, Richard Henry; Patterson, Nick; Price, Max Daniel; Reiches, Meredith Wayden; Richardson, Sarah S; Shattuck-Heidorn, Heather; Ur, Jason Alik; Urton, Gary; Warinner, Christina (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
      We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims ...