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Learn about the latest books, journal articles, and reports of BU social scientists here.<\/p>\n

The Center\u2019s mission is to promote the work of Boston University\u2019s social science faculty and our affiliates. If you have or know of someone who has a new publication, please email us at ciss@bu.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"Rosella Cappella Zielinski<\/a> (CAS\/Political Science & CISS Affiliate) When Do Militaries Fight Battles Together?<\/span><\/strong> (Security Studies<\/em>, <\/a><\/span><\/span>Jun 2026<\/a>) Cappella Zielinski and her colleagues argue that belligerents\u2019 shared stakes and logistical capacity condition the formation of battlefield coalitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"John M. Marston<\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & Anthropology & CISS Affiliate), Wade Campbell<\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology and Anthropology & CISS Affiliate<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>) and Peter Kov\u00e1\u010dik<\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology and Anthropology) <\/span>Unlocking the Potential of CRM-based Legacy Archaeobotanical Collections: A Case Study from the Middle Rio Grande, NM<\/strong> (<\/span>KIVA – Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History<\/em>, Jun 2026<\/a>) Marston, Campbell and Kov\u00e1\u010dik explores the untapped potential of archaeobotanical legacy collections, particularly flotation samples generated by Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects, to shed new light on past plant use and human \u2013 plant interactions.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kathleen Corriv<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>eau<\/a> <\/span><\/span>(SED\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Applied Human Development & CISS<\/span><\/span> Affiliate)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Managing Affordances in a Complex World Depends on Social and Cultural Factors<\/strong> (Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/em>, Jun 2026<\/a>) Corriveau and her colleagues review research highlighting the importance of not only the individual’s shifting relation to the environment but also the level of opacity of the to-be-learned information and the reciprocal social and cultural interaction between the learner and the teacher as well arguing that focusing on these social and cultural aspects of development is critical to understanding such ecological affordances.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Christine Slaughter<\/a> (CAS\/Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Even Among the 92%, It\u2019s Complicated: Examining Black Women Voters\u2019 Emotions and Evaluations of Kamala Harris in the 2024 Election<\/strong> (Political Behavior<\/em>, June 2026<\/a>) attempts to position qualitative research, specifically focus groups, among engaged and politically active Black women to best understand the contours of Black women’s political views regarding the 2024 campaign.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Robert Weller<\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) Divine Intimacy, Frustration and the Madness of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China<\/strong> (Ethos<\/em>, June 2026) Weller and his coauthor show the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Yeager<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology) Tracking Data on Corporate Offenses: The Long Road Toward a National Database<\/strong> (Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime<\/em>, January 2026<\/a>) Yeager and his colleague summarize recently proposed Congressional legislation to establish the development of a national database for tracking offenses over time, concluding that despite the continuing lack of such a database, the trend towards it has been positive over the past several decades.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Joshua Robinson<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Ancient DNA Reveals a Family Ossuary and Long-Distance Migration on the Pacific Coast Before the Inca Empire<\/strong> (Nature Communications, May 2026<\/a>) Robinson and his colleagues demonstrate population continuity from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, coinciding with persistent traditions of cranial modification and postmortem red pigment application, revealing close-knit and far-reaching coastal interaction networks that shaped the sociopolitical landscape encountered by Inca emissaries before they integrated these communities into their empire.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jessica Simes<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>102 Mass Incarceration Spillover Effects: Exploring Neighborhood Premature Mortality Through Demographic Subgroups and Spatial R<\/strong>elationships<\/strong> (Journal of Clinical and Translational Science<\/em>, May 2026<\/a>) Simes and her colleagues show premature mortality rates are substantially higher in high-incarceration neighborhoods even accounting for confounders.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew C. Stokes<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (SPH\/Global Health & CISS Affiliate)\u00a0 Causes of Excess Deaths in the US Compared With Other High-Income Countries<\/strong> (JAMA Open<\/em>, May 2026<\/a>) Stokes and his coauthors investigate causes of death responsible for excess US mortality compared with other HICs and how the causes of death involved in this US mortality disadvantage have changed overtime.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timothy Callaghan<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (SPH\/Health, Law Policy and Management & CISS Affiliate) A Naturally-Occurring Experiment on the Electoral Impact of President Biden\u2019s Decision to Exit the 2024 Presidential Race<\/strong> (Political Studies<\/em>, May 2026<\/a>) Callaghan and his assess the impact of former President Joe Biden\u2019s unprecedented decision to exit the 2024 Presidential race 2 months before election day by analyzing a naturally-occurring experiment surrounding the incumbent President\u2019s decision to exit the 2024 race.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\" Catherine F. West<\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) Further Instances of Osteoarthrosis from the Unalaska Sea Ice Project, Unalaska Island, Alaska <\/strong>(<\/span>International Journal of Paleopathology<\/span><\/span><\/em>, May 2026<\/a>) West and her coauthors estimate the prevalence of osteoarthrosis in avian remains from the site of UNL-050, Unalaska Island, Alaska as a means of contextualizing past environmental conditions.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Pamela Zabala Ortiz<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology& CISS Affiliate) Researcher Street Race-Gender in Qualitative Field Work<\/strong> (Qualitative Research, <\/i>May 2026<\/a>) Zabala Ortiz and her colleagues draw on two case studies of our research on Latinx coffee shops and Latinx college communities to demonstrate how assumptions of shared\u00a0<\/span>Latinidad<\/i>, or Latinx identity, can obscure the racialized and gendered narratives held by and about Latinxs and how these narratives shape our experiences in the field and throughout the research process.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Luke Glowacki<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology& CISS Affiliate), Maud Mouginot<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) and Bhavya Deepti Vadavalli<\/a> (GRS\/Anthropology & CISS Graduate Affiliate) <\/span>Social Structure Shapes Consensus Decision-Making Norms in Small-Scale Societies<\/strong> (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci<\/em>, May 2026<\/a>) Glowacki, Mouginot and Vadvalli use an agent-based model to explore how marriage structure, social group nesting and decision-making norms can shape a group\u2019s ability to reach consensus.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Jessica Simes<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology& CISS Affiliate) Legacies of Punishment Vulnerability: Revisiting the Seven Neighborhoods Study<\/strong> (City & Community<\/em>, Apr 2026<\/a>) Simes and her coauthors combine novel archival data with census tract imprisonment data to examine the geography of incarceration in more recent years.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher Robertson<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (LAW\/Health Law, Policy & Management & CISS Affiliate) The First AI Drug Prescriber<\/strong> (JAMA<\/em>, Apr 2026<\/a>) Robertson and his coauthor explore the pathbreaking entry of AI into clinical care, the role of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the associated legal, public health, and medical implications.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danielle Rousseau<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0(MET\/<\/span><\/span><\/span>Criminal Justice & CISS Affiliate)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Carceral Resilience: Predicting Post-Traumatic Growth for People Who Are Incarcerated<\/span><\/strong> (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy<\/em>, <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>Apr 2026<\/a>) Rousseau and her colleagues explored the connection between strength-based factors and carceral resilience rooted in the resilience portfolio model.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Hyeouk Chris Hahm<\/span><\/a> (SSW\/Social Work & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Associations between Vicarious Anti-Black and Anti-Asian Racism and Sleep in Black, Asian, and White Young Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/strong> (<\/span>Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities<\/span><\/em>, Apr 2026)<\/span><\/a> Hahm and her coauthors examines the relationships between vicarious anti-Black and anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic and sleep problems among Black, Asian, and White young adults.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Claudia N. Anderson<\/a>\u00a0(Former CISS Postdoctoral Affiliate)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Depth in the Iron Cage: Isolation and Social Contact in Contemporary Prisons<\/strong> (Crime & Delinquency<\/em>, Apr 2026<\/a>) Anderson and her colleagues systematically explore the implications of restricted housing unit (RHU) confinement for external social contact\u2014namely, prison visits\u2014among a cohort of incarcerated men suggesting that incarcerated men experience visitation loss during RHU confinement, for both disciplinary and administrative reasons, but that variation exists across race\/ethnicity and type of visitor.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wade Campbell<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology & Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) The Pinyon Nut Pickers\u2019 Camp: A Navajo Limited Occupation and Special Use Site<\/strong> (KIVA Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History,<\/em> Apr 2026<\/a>) Campbell and his coauthors provide an ethnoarchaeological examination of Navajo pinyon nut pickers\u2019 camps during the Reservation Era (CE 1868-present) and the ways different historical influences during this period altered Navajo gathering strategies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danielle Rousseau<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (MET & CISS Affiliate) Building Embodied Resilience: Strength-Based Trauma-Informed Mindfulness in Courts and Carceral Systems<\/strong> (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, Apr 2026<\/a>) Rousseau and her co-authors explore strength-based trauma-informed embodied mindfulness programming for justice-impacted individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong>Deborah Carr<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Director) Advance Care Planning of U.S. Older Adults with Limited Family Ties: Evaluating the Impacts of Partnerships Trajectories and Parental Statuses<\/strong> (Social Science & Medicine<\/em>, Apr 2026<\/a>) Carr and her colleague explore how complex romantic partnership histories, parental status, and the intersection of the two affect four subtypes of ACP (advance directives only [formal], informal discussions only [informal], both, or neither), and their distinctive components (living wills, DPAHCs, and discussions).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/span><\/a>David Carballo<\/a>\u00a0(CAS\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Anthropology, Archaeology, & Latin American Studies & CISS Affiliate)\u00a0The Distribution of Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time <\/strong>(Science Advances<\/em>, Mar 2026<\/a>) Carballo and his associates present a global, deep-time comparative analysis of governance, questioning entrenched viewpoints about the origins and evolution of democratic institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kathleen Corriv<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>eau<\/a> <\/span><\/span>(SED\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Applied Human Development & CISS<\/span><\/span> Affiliate)\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Peaceful Coexistence or Inevitable Clash? Confronting the Claims of Science and religion about Death<\/strong> (Child Development,<\/em> Mar 2026<\/a>) Corriveau and her colleagues suggest that scientific and religious conceptions of death do not coexist peacefully, at least when their contradictory nature is highlighted.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leyla Jafarova<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (GRS\/Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Death as the Gateway to \u201cHumanity\u201d: The Humanitarian Paradox of Humanity After Life <\/strong><\/span>(Polar<\/em>, Mar 2026<\/a>) Jafarova examines how humanitarian management of the dead in the Nagorno\u2013Karabakh conflict constructs deceased soldiers as objects of care, incorporating them into \u201chumanity after life\u201d\u2014a postmortem register of humanitarian concern.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Andrew Stokes<\/span><\/a> (SPH, Global Health & CISS Affiliate) <\/span><\/span><\/span>Applying Machine Learning to Identify Unrecognized COVID-19 Deaths Recorded as Other Causes of Death in the United States<\/strong> (Science Advances<\/em>, Mar 2026<\/a>) Stokes and his coauthors use machine learning trained on US death certificates from March 2020 to December 2021 to predict unrecognized COVID-19 deaths finding that 19% more COVID-19 deaths occurred in the US than officially reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christopher Robertson<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (LAW\/Health Law, Policy & Management & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Political Theater and the Great Healthcare Plan<\/strong> (JAMA Network, Mar 2026<\/a>) Robertson & his colleague <\/span><\/span>examine various aspects of the Great Healthcare Plan related to drug pricing, including over-the-counter expansion; subsidies, rebates, and cost sharing; and price transparency.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Samuel Bazzi<\/a> (CAS\/Economics), Jeremy Menchik<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (Pardee\/International Relations and Political Science, director CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs), Pujan Paudel<\/a> (ECE), Gianluca Stringhini<\/a> (ENG), & Clara Martiny<\/a> (Pardee ’23)\u00a0Protests and Radicalization in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement<\/strong> (Cambridge University Press, Apr 2026<\/a>) Bazzi, Menchick and their co-authors provide the first large-scale inquiry into the ‘Reopen’ protest movement against COVID-19 public health shutdowns and synthesize digital ethnography inside the movement with text analyses of an original data set spanning more than 1.8 million Facebook comments and posts from over 224,000 online activists.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong>Deborah Carr<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Director) Midlife in the United States (MIDUS Refresher 2), 2022-2024 <\/strong>(National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, Mar 2026)<\/a> Carr and her co-investigators on the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) are pleased to announce the release of the 2022-24 wave of follow-up data from the Refresher Sample. These data are now publicly available at ICPSR at University of Michigan. MIDUS data allow explorations of how working conditions, relationships, health, finances, and more affect health and well-being over the life course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amanda Tarullo<\/a>\"\"<\/a> (CAS\/Psychological & Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) ‘It All Depends on Your Faith’: Spiritual Illnesses and Traditional Healing in Rural Limpopo Province, South Africa<\/strong> (Journal of Biosocial Science,<\/em> Mar 2026)<\/a> Tarullo and her colleagues sought to understand local explanatory models for illness and patient experiences with different traditional health practitioners (THPs) among a population of rural women in Limpopo, South Africa.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/strong>Erik Peinert<\/a> (CAS\/Political Science & CISS Affiliate) Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy<\/strong> (Socio-Economic Review, <\/em>Mar 2026)<\/a> Peinert and his co-author show how public and private actors strove to change the interlocked legal regime governing domestic and global intellectual property (IP) rights and antitrust policy to prioritize the value of intangible assets like IP, shifting the distribution of profits among firms and contributing to the \u2018fissuring\u2019 of industrial organization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Jonathan Mijs<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Affiliate)\u00a0Visualizing Belief in Merit and Privilege, 1930 to 2020: Rejoinder <\/strong>(Socius<\/em>, Mar 2026<\/a>) In this publication, Mijs offers a two-dimensional visualization of the perceived importance of\u00a0<\/span>merit<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(hard work) and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>privilege<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(family wealth), extended to trace changes in public beliefs between 1930 and 2020 across countries in the West. Jointly examining popular beliefs about the importance of merit and privilege brings into focus the predominant belief in merit, in all countries and time periods.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Jonathan R. Zatlin<\/a> (CAS\/History)\u00a0History as Mourning, Memory as Melancholia: Weimar, Past and Future <\/strong>(Project Muse<\/em>, Feb 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Zatlin and his colleagues make use of the Weimar Republic to suggest that the way we imagine the passing of time\u2014as repetition or progress\u2014is not simply an expression of our politics but also determines why and how we recall the past.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deborah Carr<\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Director)\u00a0Social Relationship Quality and Cognitive Function: The Roles of Gender, Race\/Ethnicity, and Depression <\/strong>(The Gerontologist,<\/em>\u00a0Feb 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Carr and her co-authors examines the extent to which the quality of one’s relationships with spouse, children, friends, and other family members are associated with cognitive function in older adults by gender and racial identities, along with the mediation effect of depressive symptoms for these associations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"D<\/span><\/a>avid A. Mayers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(CAS\/History) <\/span>Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 <\/strong>(Cambridge University Press, Jan 2026<\/a>) Mayers recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935\u201341. The lives and stories of this diverse group shed light on the contested nature of American ambitions, aims, and national purpose, and destabilize what it means to be ‘American.’<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Raymond Fisman<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Economics & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Audit Centralization and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Cities <\/strong>(Journal of Accounting and Economics<\/em>, Feb 2025<\/a>) <\/span>Fisman and his colleagues find that financial (but not human) resources devoted to city audits increase with centralization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Hyeouk Chris Hahm<\/span><\/a> (SSW\/Social Work & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Proactive Coping with Racial Discrimination May Exacerbate Race-Based Traumatic Stress in Diverse Young Adults <\/strong>(Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology<\/em>, Feb 2025<\/a>) <\/span>Hahm and her coauthors test proactive coping as a moderator of the association between everyday discrimination and race-based traumatic stress symptoms.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Pamela Zabala Ortiz<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Sociology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Black Like This, Not Like That: How Afro-Latines Navigate Black and Latine Ethnoracial Hierarchies in the U.S. <\/strong>(<\/span>Ethic and Racial Studies<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>)<\/span> Zabala Ortiz highlights the experiences of Afro-Latines as they navigate the hierarchies that emerge within the spaces of both Blackness and Latinidad in the U.S.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Joshua Robinson<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>The Botanic Age: Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution <\/strong><\/strong>(<\/span>American Antiquity,<\/em>\u00a0Jan 2026<\/a>) Robinson proposes that our hominim ancestors applied knowledge of working with plant raw materials to new domains when they moved to the ground in response to forest fragmentation caused by late-Miocene climate change.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Benjamin Siegel<\/a> (CAS\/History & CISS Affiliate) Laboratory of Empire: Calcutta, Opium, and the Wartime Invention of Regulation <\/strong>(The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) Siegel argues that second World War-era experiments in Calcutta transformed opium from a fiscal commodity into an object of moral and bureaucratic concern, linking the crisis of empire to the rise of global governance and tracing how the habits of the Raj survived in the languages of development and expertise. This article reconstructs an unexpected collaboration between the Office of Strategic Services, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the Government of India, showing how wartime intelligence produced new ways of knowing and administering colonial society.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Quinn Slobodian<\/span><\/a> (Pardee) <\/span>Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment <\/strong>(Oxford University Research Archive<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in this series of comments bringing together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Peter R. Blake<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Psychological & Brain Sciences & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>The Role of Social Comparison and Emotion in Children\u2019s Fairness Judgments <\/strong>(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Blake and his coauthors examined the role of emotions is shaping fairness judgments, both when the child was a recipient and when other children were.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"John M. Marston<\/span><\/a> (CAS\/Archaeology & Anthropology & CISS Affiliate) <\/span>Climate Change and World History: Evidence from the Site of Sym-Ota 1 in the Aral Sea Basin <\/strong>(Quaternary Science Advances<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Marston and his colleagues present new radiocarbon dating and environmental data from the river-adjacent site of Sym-Ota 1 at the base of the Khorezmian pivot that indicates inhabitants were able to modify the main channel of the Amu Darya 700 years earlier than previously known, by ca. 300 BCE suggesting that the hydromorphology of the Amu Darya delta has been shaped by over 2,000 years of human ecosystem engineering.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Cheryl Knott<\/a>\u00a0(CAS\/Anthropology),\u00a0Faye Harwell<\/a>\u00a0(CAS\/Anthropology) and\u00a0Erin Kane<\/a> (CAS\/Anthropology)\u00a0Sex Differences in Estimated Lean Body Mass of Captive and Wild Orangutans <\/strong>(American Journal of Biological Anthropology<\/em>, Jan 2026<\/a>) <\/span>Knott, Harwell, Kane and their co-authors investigate muscle mass differences of wild and captive orangutans among the age-sex classes while accounting for flange status.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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