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Childhood and the evolution of the human life course

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  1. Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton, 92834-6846, Fullerton, CA, USA

    John Bock

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    Daniel W. Sellen

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John Bock is assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, and is Associate Editor of Human Nature. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Human Evolutionary Ecology) from the University of New Mexico. Bock has been conducting research among the Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana since 1992, examining child development and family demography in relation to socioecology and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Other research is focused on health disparities among minorities and indigenous peoples in Botswana and the United States related to differential access to health care.

Dan Sellen is an assistant professor at Emory University with joint appointments in the anthropology and international health departments, is an honorary lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and directs the Program for the Study of Constraints on Child Care at Emory University. He studied zoology and biological anthropology at Oxford University (M.A., 1987), anthropology at the University of Michigan (M.A., 1989), theoretical ecology and international nutrition at UC Davis (Ph.D., 1995), and completed postdoctoral training in evolutionary demography at University College London. He is interested in the application of evolutionary anthropological theory to international public health and nutrition, and has conducted research on the determinants and consequences of feeding practices among young children in rural (Tanzania, Guatemala) and refugee (Britain, United States) populations.

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Bock, J., Sellen, D.W. Childhood and the evolution of the human life course. Hum Nat 13, 153–159 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-002-1006-5

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