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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, A. Roberto Frisancho is a biological anthropologist and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the 2008 recipient of the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award in Anthropology bestowed by the American Human Biology Association. He is best known for his work on developmental human adaptation to extreme environments such as high altitudes, growth, anthropometry and evaluation of nutritional status. Specifically, he advanced the hypothesis and demonstrated that the origin of adult variability of biological phenotypic traits are function of the effects and adaptations to environmental conditions that the organism makes during the developmental stage. Within this conceptual framework, he has contributed numerous papers on bioenergetics, the nutrition and developmental determinants of pre-natal and post-natal growth including teenage pregnancy. In 2013, he received the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

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A. Roberto Frisancho's Published Works

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Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry (1996) (7946)
New norms of upper limb fat and muscle areas for assessment of nutritional status. (1981) (1750)
Anthropometric Standards for the Assessment of Growth and Nutritional Status (1990) (1619)
New standards of weight and body composition by frame size and height for assessment of nutritional status of adults and the elderly. (1984) (529)
Triceps skin fold and upper arm muscle size norms for assessment of nutrition status. (1974) (290)
Altitude and growth: a study of the patterns of physical growth of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population. (1970) (239)
Functional adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (1975) (201)
Human Adaptation and Accommodation (1993) (166)
Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults (2008) (147)
Influence of maternal stature, pregnancy age, and infant birth weight on growth during childhood in Yucatan, Mexico: A test of the intergenerational effects hypothesis (2009) (120)
Reduced rate of fat oxidation: A metabolic pathway to obesity in the developing nations (2003) (91)
Developmental Functional Adaptation to High Altitude: Review (2013) (90)
Relative leg length as a biological marker to trace the developmental history of individuals and populations: Growth delay and increased body fat (2007) (85)
Adaptive significance of small body size under poor socio-economic conditions in Southern Peru. (1973) (85)
Developmental and nutritional determinants of pregnancy outcome among teenagers. (1985) (82)
Elbow breadth as a measure of frame size for US males and females. (1983) (74)
Developmental, genetic, and environmental components of lung volumes at high altitude (1997) (74)
Maternal nutritional status and adolescent pregnancy outcome. (1983) (73)
Prenatal compared with parental origins of adolescent fatness. (2000) (71)
Blood pressure in blacks and whites and its relationship to dietary sodium and potassium intake. (1984) (68)
Developmental, genetic, and environmental components of aerobic capacity at high altitude. (1995) (66)
Developmental responses to high altitude hypoxia. (1970) (64)
Influence of maternal nutritional status on prenatal growth in a Peruvian urban population. (1977) (62)
Subperiosteal and endosteal bone apposition during adolescence. (1970) (62)
Influence of developmental adaptation on aerobic capacity at high altitude. (1973) (60)
Relative merits of old and new indices of body mass with reference to skinfold thickness. (1982) (60)
Standards of arm muscle by stature for the assessment of nutritional status of children. (1987) (59)
Human adaptation: A functional interpretation (1979) (59)
Decreased stature associated with moderate blood lead concentrations in Mexican-American children. (1991) (56)
Analysis of triquetral-lunate fusion. (1971) (52)
Influence of developmental adaptation on lung function at high altitude. (1973) (52)
Nutritional influence on childhood development and genetic control of adolescent growth of Quechuas and Mestizos from the Peruvian lowlands. (1980) (52)
Childhood retardation resulting in reduction of adult body size due to lesser adolescent skeletal delay. (1970) (50)
Study of growth in rural school children from Buenos Aires, Argentina using upper arm muscle area by height and other anthropometric dimensions of body composition. (1999) (45)
Developmental adaptation to high altitude hypoxia (1977) (45)
Developmental adaptation: Where we go from here (2009) (41)
Newborn body compositon and its relationship to linear growth. (1977) (40)
Skin-fold thickness and muscle size: implications for developmental status and nutritional evaluation of children from Honduras. (1971) (40)
Unequal influence of low dietary intakes on skeletal maturation during childhood and adolescence. (1970) (36)
Heritability and components of phenotypic expression in skin reflectance of Mestizos from the Peruvian lowlands. (1981) (36)
Influence of growth status and placental function on birth weight of infants born to young still-growing teenagers. (1984) (35)
Body proportions of highland and lowland Peruvian Quechua children. (1978) (34)
Confirmation of the sex difference in continuing subperiosteal apposition. (1972) (34)
Unaltered cortical area of pregnant and lactating women. Studies of the second metacarpal bone in North and Central American populations. (1971) (32)
Histopathology of the Pterygium in Population on Croatian Island Rab (2007) (31)
Advanced maturation associated with centripetal fat pattern. (1982) (31)
Age at menarche: a new method of prediction and retrospective assessment based on hand x-rays. (1969) (29)
Role of gynecological age and growth maturity status in fetal maturation and prenatal growth of infants born to young still-growing adolescent mothers. (1984) (28)
Behavioral, environmental, metabolic and intergenerational components of early life undernutrition leading to later obesity in developing nations and in minority groups in the U.S.A. (2007) (25)
Pattern of growth of lowland and highland Peruvian Quechua of similar genetic composition. (1975) (23)
Developmental components of resting ventilation among high- and low-altitude Andean children and adults. (1999) (23)
Human growth and pulmonary function of a high altitude Peruvian Quechua population. (1969) (23)
The relationship of maturity rate to body size and body proportions in children and adults. (1988) (22)
Symbiotic relationship of high fertility, high childhood mortality and socio-economic status in an urban Peruvian population. (1976) (19)
Reduction of Birth Weight Among Infants Born to Adolescents: Maternal–Fetal Growth Competition (1997) (17)
Nutritional anthropometry. (1988) (17)
Relationship of skinfolds and muscle size to growth of children. I. Costa Rica. (1971) (16)
Origins of differences in hemoglobin concentration between Himalayan and Andean populations. (1988) (15)
Role of genetic and environmental factors in the increased blood pressures of Bolivian blacks (1999) (13)
Secular trend in neonatal mortality in the moutain states. (1970) (12)
Differences in stature and cortical thickness among highland Quechua Indian boys. (1970) (9)
The implications of skinfolds and muscle size to developmental and nutritional status of Central American children. 3. Guatemala. (1971) (8)
A-B-O and Rh affinities between highland and lowland Quechua-speaking Peruvian populations. (1975) (8)
Coca chewing among high altitude natives: Work and muscular efficiencies of nonhabitual chewers (1995) (7)
Relationship of serum cholesterol and truncal body fat distribution among Mexican Americans is accentuated by obesity (1994) (5)
Perspectives on functional adaptation of the high altitude native. (1983) (5)
A comparison of morphological variables in adult males selected on the basis of physical activity. (1970) (5)
Human Evolutionary Biology: The Study of Human Adaptation (2010) (4)
Taste sensitivity to phenylthiourea (PTC), tongue rolling, and hand clasping among Peruvian and other native American populations. (1977) (4)
Small for gestational age associated with short stature during adolescence (1994) (4)
Introduction: Symposium in honor of Stanley M. Garn (1994) (4)
Ineffectiveness of body mass indices for the evaluation of neonate nutritional status. (1986) (3)
Reply to letter by Bishop et al (1982) (3)
[Anthropometric growth of the school population in rural and suburban areas of Durango, Mexico]. (1997) (3)
Selection on maternal and neonate size at birth. (1993) (2)
Greater contribution to secular trend among offspring of short parents. (1977) (2)
Maternal nutritionalstatus and adolescent pregnancy outcome1 (1983) (2)
Obituary: Stanley Marion Garn (1922–2007) (2009) (2)
Digital and palmar dermatoglyphic patterns in two Peruvian Quechua populations. (1977) (2)
Reduction in birth weight associated with smoking among young and older‐age women (1990) (2)
Introduction (1990) (0)
developmental status and nutritional evaluation of children from Honduras"2 (1971) (0)
American Journal of Human Biology as the new official publication of the Human Biology Council (1989) (0)
Human Adaptation. G. A. Harrison, ed (1995) (0)
Obesity, growth and development (2003) (0)
Man. second ed. By Richard J. Harrison and William Montagna. viii + 458 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. $5.25 (paper) (1976) (0)
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Desarrollo Somatico y Rendimiento Fisico del Escolar Peruano. Ernesto Esteban A. and Rolland G. Paulston (1969) (0)
Developmental Adaptation to High Altitude Hypoxia by A . R . Frisancho (0)
Feature Article Developmental Adaptation: Where We Go from Here (2009) (0)

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