Peter Frost

Biographic Data

ID165270
NAMEPeter Frost
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEFrost
SIGNATUREFROST P
AFFILIATIONSUniversité Laval
ORCID0000-0002-5498-1866
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS120
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX5

  • Lt;i>Damunwha in South Korea: A Case Study of Divergences in Cognition and Behavior

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2021

    In South Korea, over 10% of new couples involve a foreign bride. Most come from Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia), and others from East Asia (China, Japan). Such couples now produce almost 6% of births. Their children tend to do badly at school and many drop out, the commonly cited reason being the child’s poor acquisition of language skills from a foreign mother. In reality, Damunwha (“multicultural children”) …

  • White Skin Privilege: Modern Myth, Forgotten Past

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEEvolutionary Studies in…2020

    European women dominate images of beauty, presumably because Europe has dominated the world for the past few centuries. Yet this presumed cause poorly explains “white slavery”-the commodification of European women for export at a time when their continent was much less dominant. Actually, there has long been a cross-cultural preference for lighter-skinned women, with the notable exception of modern Western culture. This cultural norm mirrors a ph…

  • The Large Society Problem in Northwest Europe and East Asia

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2020

    Kinship was the organizing principle of early societies, defining how people should behave toward each other. Social and economic activity was thus organized mostly among closely related individuals, a limitation that would keep societies from realizing their full potential as they grew larger. The “large society problem” has not been fully solved anywhere, but Northwest Europeans and East Asians have gone the farthest toward a solution. In gener…

  • To Supplement or Not to Supplement: Are Inuit Getting Enough Vitamin D

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEÉtudes/Inuit/Studies2019Cited by: 1References: 56

    Inuit have vitamin D blood levels that generally fall within the range of insufficiency, even when they live on a traditional diet of fish and game meat. Without this vitamin, bones soften and become deformed, a condition called rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Until recent times, however, this condition was much rarer among Inuit than among non-Inuit, even when the latter included people living near Inuit communities under similar…

  • The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature

    Daniel Clément, Peter FrostBOOKBungling Host2018Cited by: 1

  • Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex

    Bernard Saladin D’anglure, Bernard Saladin D'Anglure et al.BOOKInuit Stories of Being and Rebirth2018Cited by: 2

    As explained through first-person accounts and traditional legends, myths, and folk tales, the presence of transgender individuals informs Inuit relationships to one another and to the world at large, transcending the dualities of male and female, human and animal, human and spirit

  • The Hajnal Line and Gene-Culture Coevolution in Northwest Europe

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2017

    North and west of a line running from Trieste to St. Petersburg, social relations have long conformed to the Western European Marriage Pattern, i.e., men and women marry relatively late; many people never marry; children usually leave the nuclear family to form new households, and households often have non-kin members. This pattern goes back at least to the thirteenth century and perhaps to prehistoric times. I argue that this environment of weak…

  • Evolution of Long Head Hair in Humans

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2015

    In many humans, head hair can grow to a much greater length than hair elsewhere on the body. This is a “derived” form that evolved outside Africa and probably in northern Eurasia. The ancestral form, which is frizzier and much shorter, survives in sub-Saharan Africans and in other groups whose ancestors never left the tropics. This original hair form is nonetheless relatively straight and silky during infancy. Head hair thus seems to have lengthe…

  • The Influence of Confirmation Bias on Memory and Source Monitoring

    Peter Frost, Peter J Frost et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of General Psychology2015Cited by: 2

    Two experiments were conducted to examine whether recognition memory for information and/or its source are influenced by confirmation bias. During Phase 1, subjects were shown a summary about the issue of gun control and asked to indicate a position on the issue. During Phase 2, 12 abstracts (Experiment 1) or social media posts (Experiment 2) were shown, one at a time. Posts in Experiment 2 were associated with either friends or strangers. Partic…

  • The Puzzle of European Hair, Eye, and Skin Color

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2014

    Europeans, particularly northern and eastern Europeans, are unusually colored. Their hair can be not only black but also brown, flaxen, golden, or red, and their eyes not only brown but also blue, gray, hazel, or green. Their skin is pale, almost like an albino’s. This color scheme is more developed in women than in men and seems to have been selected for its visual properties, particularly brightness and novelty. Sexual selection is a likely cau…

  • Role and outcomes of community health workers in HIV care in sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic review

    Open AccessGrace W Mwai, Gitau Mburu et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International AIDS…2013

  • Tay-Sachs and French Canadians: A Case of Gene-Culture Co-evolution

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAdvances in Anthropology2012

    Tay-Sachs, an inherited neurological disorder, is unusually common among French Canadians from eastern Quebec. Two alleles are responsible, one being specific to the north shore of the St. Lawrence and the other to the south shore. This pattern of convergent evolution suggests the presence of a selection pressure limited to eastern Quebec. Both alleles probably arose after the British conquest of Quebec in 1759 or at least were uncommon previousl…

  • Human nature or human natures

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEFutures2011References: 51

  • Femmes claires, hommes foncés: Les racines oubliées du colorisme

    Peter FrostBOOKFemmes claires, hommes foncés2010

  • The contours and consequences of compassion at work

    Open AccessJacoba M Lilius, Jacoba Lilius et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior2008Cited by: 38References: 14

    This paper describes two studies that explore core questions about compassion at work. Findings from a pilot survey indicate that compassion occurs with relative frequency among a wide variety of individuals, suggesting a relationship between experienced compassion, positive emotion, and affective commitment. A complementary narrative study reveals a wide range of compassion triggers and illuminates ways that work colleagues respond to suffering.…

  • Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science

    Open AccessKen E Giller, Cees Leeuwis et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2008Cited by: 8

    Giller, K. E., C. Leeuwis, J. A. Andersson, W. Andriesse, A. Brouwer, P. Frost, P. Hebinck, I. Heitkönig, M. K. van Ittersum, N. Koning, R. Ruben, M. Slingerland, H. Udo, T. Veldkamp, C. van de Vijver, M. T. van Wijk, and P. Windmeijer. 2008. Competing claims on natural resources: what role for science?. Ecology and Society 13(2): 34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02595-130234

  • Human skin‐color sexual dimorphism: A test of the sexual selection hypothesis

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEAmerican Journal of Physical…2007

  • In Search of Improved Rural Livelihoods in Semi-Arid Regions through Local Management of Natural Resources: Lessons from Case Studies in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessPeter Frost, Peter J Frost et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2007Cited by: 8References: 6

  • European hair and eye color

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2006

  • Landscape-scale Approaches for Integrated Natural Resource Management in Tropical Forest Landscapes

    Open AccessPeter Frost, P G H Frost et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006

    Frost, P., B. Campbell, G. Medina, and L. Usongo. 2006. Landscape-scale approaches for integrated natural resource management in tropical forest landscapes. Ecology and Society 11(2): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01932-110230

  • Femmes claires, hommes foncés: Les Racines Oubliées Du Préjugé De Couleur

    Peter FrostARTICLEAnthropologie et Sociétés2003

    Femmes claires, hommes foncés : les racines oubliées du préjugé de couleur Le préjugé de couleur a-t-il pris naissance dans l'esclavage des Noirs? Ou bien a-t-il précédé ce dernier, faisant de lui une institution plus déshumanisante que les formes de servitude précédentes? La deuxième proposition semble plus conforme au développement historique de l'esclavage, depuis l'institution mufti-ethnique du Moyen Âge jusqu'à celle de caractère entièrement…

  • Assessing the Performance of Natural Resource Systems

    Open AccessBruce Campbell, Jeffrey Sayer et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2002

    Campbell, B., J. A. Sayer, P. Frost, S. Vermeulen, M. Ruiz-Pérez, T. Cunningham and R. Prabhu 2001. Assessing the Performance of Natural Resource Systems. Conservation Ecology 5(2):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00316-050222

  • Argument without end

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2000

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  • Doing Exemplary Research

    Stewart Clegg, Peter Frost et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Geographic distribution of human skin colour: A selective compromise between natural selection and sexual selection

    Open AccessPeter FrostARTICLEHuman Evolution1994Cited by: 7References: 18