Holly M Dunsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 626800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holly M Dunsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holly M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunsworth |
| SIGNATURE | DUNSWORTH H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6685-213X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice
Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton
While the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction differ between the sexes, the effects of hormones on skeletal growth do not. Human bone growth depends on estrogen. Greater estrogen produced by ovaries causes bones in female bodies to fuse before males' resulting in sex differences in adult height and mass. Female pelves expand more than males' due to estrogen and relaxin produced and employed by the tissues of the pelvic region and potenti…
Dental microwear profilometry of African non-cercopithecoid catarrhines of the Early Miocene
The Evolution of Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Hominin Infants
Because of the implications for behavioral, social, and cultural evolution, reconstructions of the evolutionary history of human parturition are driven by two main questions: First, when did childbirth become difficult? And second, does difficult childbirth have something to do with infant helplessness? Here we review the available evidence and consider answers to these questions. Although the definitive timeframe remains unclear, childbirth may …
Catastrophes in evolution: Is Cuvier's world extinct or extant
Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality
The classic anthropological hypothesis known as the “obstetrical dilemma” is a well-known explanation for human altriciality, a condition that has significant implications for human social and behavioral evolution. The hypothesis holds that antagonistic selection for a large neonatal brain and a narrow, bipedal-adapted birth canal poses a problem for childbirth; the hominin “solution” is to truncate gestation, resulting in an altricial neonate. T…
Dr. Pangloss's nose: In evolution, cause, correlation, and effect are not always identical
Voltaire's novel Candide1 is a rather chaotic mix of political satire, fantasy, and confusion. Voltaire himself didn't think much of his odd little book, but it none the less has been received as a classic for centuries Fig. 1. The hero, Candide's tutor Dr. Pangloss, became an archetype of pompous academic pedants, “the most profound metaphysician in Germany,” then and now. He entrances audiences with lectures on “metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigo…
The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya
Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution
The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya
The Evolution of Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Hominin Infants
Because of the implications for behavioral, social, and cultural evolution, reconstructions of the evolutionary history of human parturition are driven by two main questions: First, when did childbirth become difficult? And second, does difficult childbirth have something to do with infant helplessness? Here we review the available evidence and consider answers to these questions. Although the definitive timeframe remains unclear, childbirth may …
Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution
Dental microwear profilometry of African non-cercopithecoid catarrhines of the Early Miocene
Stratigraphic interpretation of the Kulu Formation (Early Miocene, Rusinga Island, Kenya) and its implications for primate evolution
The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya
Dr. Pangloss's nose: In evolution, cause, correlation, and effect are not always identical
Voltaire's novel Candide1 is a rather chaotic mix of political satire, fantasy, and confusion. Voltaire himself didn't think much of his odd little book, but it none the less has been received as a classic for centuries Fig. 1. The hero, Candide's tutor Dr. Pangloss, became an archetype of pompous academic pedants, “the most profound metaphysician in Germany,” then and now. He entrances audiences with lectures on “metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigo…
Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality
The classic anthropological hypothesis known as the “obstetrical dilemma” is a well-known explanation for human altriciality, a condition that has significant implications for human social and behavioral evolution. The hypothesis holds that antagonistic selection for a large neonatal brain and a narrow, bipedal-adapted birth canal poses a problem for childbirth; the hominin “solution” is to truncate gestation, resulting in an altricial neonate. T…
Catastrophes in evolution: Is Cuvier's world extinct or extant
Dental microwear profilometry of African non-cercopithecoid catarrhines of the Early Miocene
The Evolution of Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Hominin Infants
Because of the implications for behavioral, social, and cultural evolution, reconstructions of the evolutionary history of human parturition are driven by two main questions: First, when did childbirth become difficult? And second, does difficult childbirth have something to do with infant helplessness? Here we review the available evidence and consider answers to these questions. Although the definitive timeframe remains unclear, childbirth may …
Expanding the evolutionary explanations for sex differences in the human skeleton
While the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction differ between the sexes, the effects of hormones on skeletal growth do not. Human bone growth depends on estrogen. Greater estrogen produced by ovaries causes bones in female bodies to fuse before males' resulting in sex differences in adult height and mass. Female pelves expand more than males' due to estrogen and relaxin produced and employed by the tissues of the pelvic region and potenti…
Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice
Biology (6 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (3 works) · Paleontology (3 works) · Paleontology (3 works) · Zoology (3 works) · Birth, Development, and Health (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Geology (2 works)