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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herman Pontzer is an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University, where he is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health. He is best known for his research into human bioenergetics.
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- Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. (2007) (538)
- Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the origin of human bipedalism (2007) (319)
- Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality (2012) (273)
- Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity (2012) (255)
- Evidence of Lévy walk foraging patterns in human hunter–gatherers (2013) (254)
- Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies (2015) (245)
- Control and function of arm swing in human walking and running (2009) (203)
- Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Adaptation to Physical Activity in Adult Humans (2016) (192)
- Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history (2016) (186)
- The human gluteus maximus and its role in running (2006) (170)
- The metabolic cost of walking in humans, chimpanzees, and early hominins. (2009) (169)
- Trabecular bone in the bird knee responds with high sensitivity to changes in load orientation (2006) (154)
- Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins. (2010) (154)
- Effective limb length and the scaling of locomotor cost in terrestrial animals (2007) (152)
- Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution. (2004) (145)
- Ecological Energetics in Early Homo (2012) (130)
- Daily energy expenditure through the human life course (2021) (125)
- Hunter‐gatherers as models in public health (2018) (125)
- Primate energy expenditure and life history (2014) (123)
- Bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion in chimpanzees. (2014) (108)
- Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and the Evolutionary Biology of Energy Balance (2015) (106)
- A Wider Pelvis Does Not Increase Locomotor Cost in Humans, with Implications for the Evolution of Childbirth (2015) (103)
- Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists (2018) (102)
- A new model predicting locomotor cost from limb length via force production (2005) (101)
- Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter‐gatherers (2017) (101)
- Metabolic adaptation for low energy throughput in orangutans (2010) (100)
- Understanding hind limb weight support in chimpanzees with implications for the evolution of primate locomotion. (2009) (96)
- Trabecular Evidence for a Human-Like Gait in Australopithecus africanus (2013) (89)
- Predicting the energy cost of terrestrial locomotion: a test of the LiMb model in humans and quadrupeds (2007) (86)
- Energy expenditure and activity among Hadza hunter‐gatherers (2015) (71)
- Ontogeny of Ranging in Wild Chimpanzees (2006) (68)
- Waddling and toddling: the biomechanical effects of an immature gait. (2010) (65)
- Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure (2019) (64)
- Economy and Endurance in Human Evolution (2017) (60)
- Great ranging associated with greater reproductive investment in mammals (2009) (55)
- Energy Expenditure in Humans and Other Primates: A New Synthesis (2015) (54)
- Skeletal pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, Uganda. (2008) (54)
- Energy Constraint as a Novel Mechanism Linking Exercise and Health. (2018) (53)
- Biomechanics of Running Indicates Endothermy in Bipedal Dinosaurs (2009) (50)
- High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden. (2016) (49)
- The Laetoli footprints and early hominin locomotor kinematics. (2008) (48)
- A unified theory for the energy cost of legged locomotion (2016) (43)
- Energy compensation and adiposity in humans (2021) (42)
- A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies (2021) (40)
- Sitting, squatting, and the evolutionary biology of human inactivity (2020) (39)
- Macronutrient contributions of insects to the diets of hunter-gatherers: a geometric analysis. (2014) (37)
- Dental microwear texture analysis and diet in the Dmanisi hominins. (2011) (35)
- Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins (2018) (35)
- Great ape walking kinematics: Implications for hominoid evolution. (2018) (35)
- The Narrow Niche hypothesis: gray squirrels shed new light on primate origins. (2011) (35)
- Constraint and trade-offs regulate energy expenditure during childhood (2019) (33)
- Mutualism and manipulation in Hadza–honeyguide interactions (2014) (31)
- The crown joules: energetics, ecology, and evolution in humans and other primates (2017) (29)
- Foot strike patterns and hind limb joint angles during running in Hadza hunter-gatherers (2014) (28)
- Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers (2021) (27)
- Muscle force production during bent-knee, bent-hip walking in humans. (2013) (26)
- Body size and lower limb posture during walking in humans (2017) (24)
- The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies (2021) (22)
- Chewing efficiency and occlusal functional morphology in modern humans. (2016) (21)
- Relating ranging ecology, limb length, and locomotor economy in terrestrial animals. (2012) (21)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency International Doubly Labelled Water Database: Aims, Scope and Procedures (2019) (19)
- A new look at the Dynamic Similarity Hypothesis: the importance of swing phase (2013) (19)
- Sex differences in respiratory and circulatory cost during hypoxic walking: potential impact on oxygen saturation (2019) (18)
- Childhood Daily Energy Expenditure Does Not Decrease with Market Integration and Is Not Related to Adiposity in Amazonia. (2021) (16)
- The Exercise Paradox. (2017) (16)
- High energy requirements and water throughput of adult Shuar forager‐horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador (2019) (16)
- Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small‐scale populations in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments (2020) (16)
- Control and function of arm swing in human walking and running (2009) (14)
- Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life (2021) (14)
- Measuring the Energy of Ventilation and Circulation during Human Walking using Induced Hypoxia (2017) (13)
- Mechanics of archery among Hadza hunter-gatherers (2017) (13)
- Effects of Evolution, Ecology, and Economy on Human Diet: Insights from Hunter-Gatherers and Other Small-Scale Societies. (2021) (13)
- Drinking water salinity is associated with hypertension and hyperdilute urine among Daasanach pastoralists in Northern Kenya. (2021) (12)
- Gait changes in a line of mice artificially selected for longer limbs (2017) (12)
- Total energy expenditure in captive capuchins (Sapajus apella) (2017) (10)
- Fitness and Fatness Are Both Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk in Preadolescents. (2019) (10)
- Elite swimmers do not exhibit a body mass index trade-off across a wide range of event distances (2018) (9)
- Evolution of water conservation in humans (2021) (9)
- Reindeer herders from subarctic Finland exhibit high total energy expenditure and low energy intake during the autumn herd roundup (2021) (9)
- From Treadmill to Tropics: Calculating Ranging Cost in Chimpanzees (2011) (8)
- Hotter and sicker: External energy expenditure and the tangled evolutionary roots of anthropogenic climate change and chronic disease (2021) (8)
- 7. Locomotor Ecology and Evolution in Chimpanzees and Humans (2017) (7)
- Balancing growth, reproduction, maintenance, and activity in evolved energy economies (2022) (7)
- Age-related decline in urine concentration may not be universal: Comparative study from the U.S. and two small-scale societies. (2019) (6)
- How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences? (2021) (6)
- Physical Activity and Total Daily Energy Expenditure in Older US Adults: Constrained versus Additive Models. (2021) (6)
- Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in huntergatherers (2017) (6)
- Dehydration and persistence hunting in Homo erectus. (2019) (5)
- The co-occurrence of water insecurity and food insecurity among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya (2022) (5)
- How to Sit (1878) (5)
- Energetic and endurance constraints on great ape quadrupedalism and the benefits of hominin bipedalism (2021) (5)
- Method and rationale for recalculating dilution spaces to a single, common time point in doubly labeled water studies (2018) (5)
- Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors (2022) (4)
- Total energy expenditure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of different ages. (2021) (4)
- Correction: Biomechanics of Running Indicates Endothermy in Bipedal Dinosaurs (2009) (4)
- DEMOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF HADZA HUNTER‐GATHERERS By Nicholas Blurton Jones 508 pp. (2016). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. $130.00 (paperback) (2017) (4)
- Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease risk: An evolutionary perspective (2022) (4)
- Ageing and physical function in East African foragers and pastoralists (2020) (4)
- Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females. (2022) (4)
- Human total, basal and activity energy expenditures are independent of ambient environmental temperature (2022) (4)
- The Evolution of the Human Endurance Phenotype (2019) (4)
- Daily physical activity is negatively associated with thyroid hormone levels, inflammation, and immune system markers among men and women in the NHANES dataset (2022) (4)
- Determinants of climbing energetic costs in humans. (2021) (3)
- Evolved to exercise. (2019) (3)
- Trabecular Bone Orientation in Flexed Versus Extended Postures in Guinea Fowl: A Test of Wolff’s Law (2003) (3)
- Water turnover among human populations: Effects of environment and lifestyle (2019) (3)
- Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition (2022) (3)
- Step Counts From Satellites: Methods for Integrating Accelerometer and GPS Data for More Accurate Measures of Pedestrian Travel (2020) (3)
- Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among "Race Across the USA" athletes. (2019) (2)
- Musculoskeletal growth patterns in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) (2015) (2)
- The effect of a "bent-knee" gait on trabecular orientation: an experiment test of Wolff's Law (2005) (2)
- Adaptation to Physical Activity in Adult Humans (2)
- Estimates of fossil hominin quadriceps physiological cross sectional area from patellar dimensions (2015) (2)
- Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Exhibit Gender Differences in Space Use and Spatial Cognition Consistent with the Ecology of Male and Female Targeted Foods (2019) (2)
- Exercise is essential for health but a poor tool for weight loss: a reply to Allison and colleagues (2022) (2)
- Objectively Measured Childhood Physical Activity among Small-scale Populations (2017) (2)
- Testing hypotheses about hominin locomotor evolution using models not analogies (2017) (2)
- Videographic analysis of kinematics in great apes: To what extent are gait and posture conserved? (2016) (1)
- Dmanisi Hominins and Archaeology (2020) (1)
- The Human Lineage.Foundations of Human Biology..ByMatt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley‐Blackwell. $100.00. xiii + 609 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐0‐471‐21491‐5. 2009. (2010) (1)
- Cross‐cultural variation in thirst perception in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments: Evidence from two small‐scale populations (2021) (1)
- Why is the human gluteus so maximus (2005) (1)
- The Exercise Paradox. (Cover story) (2017) (1)
- Balancing the scales: Preliminary investigation of total energy expenditure and daily metabolizable energy intake in Matschie’s tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) (2022) (1)
- Trade-offs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists (2018) (1)
- Total energy expenditure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of different ages. (2021) (1)
- Impact of energy availability and physical activity on variation in fertility across human populations (2023) (0)
- Daily water turn over in humans, apes, and fossil hominins (2014) (0)
- Energetics and Economics of Foraging in Humans and other Apes (2016) (0)
- Locomotor-respiratory dynamics and gait frequency tuning in humans (2018) (0)
- Chimpanzee energetics, ecology, and evolution (2016) (0)
- Energy expenditure and physical activity levels in captive tufted capuchins (Cebus apella) (2016) (0)
- Methodological differences cannot explain associations between health, anthropometrics and excess RMR (2019) (0)
- The effect of the alpha-actinin 3 (ACTN3) R577X polymorphism and mtDNA on energy expenditure in modern humans (2019) (0)
- Methodological differences cannot explain associations between health, anthropometrics, and excess resting metabolic rate. (2019) (0)
- Energetic costs of testosterone: higher testosterone is associated with greater lean muscle mass and total energetic expenditure among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists (2015) (0)
- Sex differences in respiratory and circulatory cost during hypoxic walking: potential impact on oxygen saturation (2019) (0)
- 1 2 Gait changes in a line of mice artificially selected for longer limbs 3 4 (2017) (0)
- The Effect of bi-iliac breadth on thermoregulation during running (2018) (0)
- Finite Element Modeling of Talar Loading in Modern Humans with Application to the Hominin Fossil Record (2017) (0)
- Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life Doubly Labeled Water database (2021) (0)
- Hybrid interferon compositions and methods for their application (1997) (0)
- Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya (2022) (0)
- Energetics and Muscle Use of Human Climbing (2016) (0)
- Gray squirrels consume anthropogenic food waste most often during winter (2022) (0)
- Calculation method for daily water intake components using doubly labeled water (2021) (0)
- PODIUM B Workday and non-workday salivary cortisol circadian parameters differ by family living and ethnicity among healthy premenopausal women (2021) (0)
- Evolutionary mismatch and the role of GxE interactions in human disease (2023) (0)
- Ranging Ecology: The View from Above (2020) (0)
- Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition (2022) (0)
- Early childhood growth in Daasanach pastoralists of Northern Kenya: Distinct patterns of faltering in linear growth and weight gain (2022) (0)
- Step on it (2019) (0)
- The fire of evolution: energy expenditure and ecology in primates and other endotherms. (2023) (0)
- Metabolism myths (2021) (0)
- Are Two Legs Better than Four? Comparative Biomechanics & the Evolution of Human Walking & Running (2008) (0)
- Is More Physical Activity Always Better? Constrained vs Additive Total Energy Expenditure Models.: 3377 Board # (2018) (0)
- Mechanics of Hip Extension Characterize Arboreal-Terrestrial Trade-offs in Hominin Evolution (2017) (0)
- Thirst perception is associated with ambient temperature and season of birth, but not hydration status: Data from two small-scale societies in extreme thermal environments (2020) (0)
- Objectively measured physical activity in a hunting and gathering population (2017) (0)
- Early hominin paleoecology. Edited by Matt Sponheimer, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Kaye E. Reed, and Peter Ungar. 368 pp. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. 2013. $70.00 (cloth), $56.00 (e-book). (2014) (0)
- Exploring the relationship between anthropoid cuboid morphology and expressed locomotor behavior (2014) (0)
- The effect of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) I/D polymorphism on energy expenditure in modern humans (2018) (0)
- Persistence hunting in Levant: Both Neandertals and modern humans could run down a horse (2019) (0)
- Ageing and physical function in East African foragers and pastoralists: Function in foragers and pastoralists (2020) (0)
- The Bicondylar Angle in Modern Humans and its Relationship to Joint Stresses and Locomotor Economy (2013) (0)
- Chewing efficiency variation with food material properties and masticatory morphology in humans (2015) (0)
- Aerobic activity in the Hadza hunter-foragers of Tanzania (2012) (0)
- Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers (2021) (0)
- Assessing the energetic costs of testosterone: Higher testosterone associated with total energetic expenditure above and beyond lean muscle mass (2017) (0)
- Relating foraging ecology to locomotor economy and limb length in living apes and fossil hominins (2012) (0)
- Sex Differences In Respiratory And Circulatory Cost And Arterial Oxygen Saturation During Hypoxic Walking (2019) (0)
- Behavior: Knowing When to Walk Away, Knowing When to Run (2016) (0)
- Sitting, squatting, and the evolution of human inactivity (2016) (0)
- Intrinsic Manual Proportions affect the Biomechanics of Suspension (2017) (0)
- Hamstrings, moment arms, and gait mechanics in early hominins (2014) (0)
- Air temperature and diet influence body composition and water turnover in zoo-living African elephants (Loxodonta africana) (2020) (0)
- Comparing Forelimb Skeletal Anatomy in Gray Squirrels and Primates (2013) (0)
- Humans, the high-energy ape: hominoid energetics and life history evolution (2015) (0)
- Measuring the Energy of Ventilation and Circulation during Human Walking using Induced Hypoxia (2017) (0)
- Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure (2023) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Elite swimmers do not exhibit a body mass index trade-off across a wide range of event distances" (2018) (0)
- Linking limb length to locomotor cost in terrestrial animals (2006) (0)
- Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting. (2022) (0)
- Gape cycle kinematic variance and occlusal topography in modern humans (2016) (0)
- Direct measures of total and resting energy expenditure among Shuar forager-horticulturalist children: Evolutionary and epidemiological implications (2018) (0)
- Is arm swing active or passive during human walking and running (2006) (0)
- walkR: A Software Package to Analyze the Biomechanics of Human Locomotion (2017) (0)
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