Category Archives: Energetics

Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bring together the whole series into a single, easily sharable post … Continue reading →

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Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-marathon long run. Unfortunately, I pulled a muscle in my right leg in … Continue reading →

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Running for Science:Science for Running – Episode 3, Hips Don’t Lie (Anna Warrener)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

No part of human skeletal anatomy is more central to our understanding of human bipedal locomotion-and it’s distinction from ape patterns of locomotion-than the pelvis. On this week’s episode I talk with Dr. Anna Warrener (CU-Denver), who has done amazing … Continue reading →

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Running for Science: Science for Running – Episode 1, You Have to Walk Before You Can Run (Jeremy DeSilva)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

Happy to release episode 1 of “Running for Science: Science for Running.” This episode – You have to walk before you can run – features Dartmouth anthropologist, Jeremy DeSilva. Jerry is a good friend I have known since graduate school, … Continue reading →

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Running for Science: Science for Running – A podcast series and fundraising drive

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Adam Van Arsdale

I hinted in my post earlier this month that I had a number of exciting projects upcoming. One of them, I am proud to more formally announce today, and will go live next week. Introducing… Running for Science: Science for … Continue reading →

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Breast milk isn’t magic, it IS an important evolutionary feature in humans

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Adam Van Arsdale

I started the day off yesterday by upsetting some colleagues. @APV2600 @Quinnanthrowman why you got to ruin my day Adam? — Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) May 20, 2015 You see, Dr. Katie Hinde (@Mammals_Suck) is a human evolutionary biologist (I like … Continue reading →

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Cooking, fire and food

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

It is only fitting on the heels of Thanksgiving to have a little discussion of cooking, fire and food. Dennis Sandgathe and colleagues have a paper in Paleoanthropology reviewing the evidence for fire-control in Western European Neandertals. In the article, … Continue reading →

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Energetic or expensive brains?

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

I have not had a chance to go through all the details of this paper, but University of Zurich PhD student, Ana Navarrete (along with Carel van Schaik and Karin Isler), has a paper out in Nature this week that … Continue reading →

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