Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Biological anthropology, adaptability, growth and development, nutrition, South America, Asia, and United States.
Education/Academic qualification
Bioanthropology, PhD, University of Michigan
… → 1987
Research interests
- Biological anthropology
- Income inequality
- Indigenous amazonians
- Metabolic health
- Yakut (sakha)
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Siberia
Medicine & Life Sciences
Bolivia
Medicine & Life Sciences
Nutritional Status
Medicine & Life Sciences
Energy Metabolism
Medicine & Life Sciences
Health
Medicine & Life Sciences
Basal Metabolism
Medicine & Life Sciences
Population
Medicine & Life Sciences
energy
Social Sciences
Network
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Grants 2001 2019
- 23 Finished
Walking Green: Developing an evidence-base for Nature Prescriptions
Forest Preserve District of Cook County
5/1/16 → 12/31/17
Project: Research project
Walking
Prescriptions
Longitudinal Studies
Health
Forests
Consequences and Context of Stunting in the Bolivian Amazon
University of Georgia, National Science Foundation
7/1/15 → 7/31/19
Project: Research project
adolescence
low income
childhood
lack
health
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Conceptualizing the Adaptive Significance of Brown Adipose Tissue in Cold Climates
3/1/15 → 2/28/18
Project: Research project
Cold Climate
Brown Adipose Tissue
Thermogenesis
Siberia
Basal Metabolism
The adaptive significance of brown fat among the Yakut of Siberia
1/1/15 → 2/29/16
Project: Research project
Doctoral Dissertation Research: The effects of community allotment gardening on health and well-being in two Chicago communities
7/1/14 → 12/31/15
Project: Research project
earning a doctorate
well-being
health
community
anthropology
Research Output 1984 2019
Longitudinal Changes in Measures of Body Fat and Diet Among Adult Tsimane’ Forager-Horticulturalists of Bolivia, 2002-2010
Bethancourt, H. J., Leonard, W., Tanner, S., Schultz, A. F. & Rosinger, A. Y., Aug 1 2019, In : Obesity. 27, 8, p. 1347-1359 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Bolivia
Adipose Tissue
Domestic Animals
Adiposity
Cooking
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age: lasting effects and catch-up growth among native Amazonians in Bolivia
Brabec, M., Behrman, J. R., Emmett, S. D., Gibson, E., Kidd, C., Leonard, W., Penny, M. E., Piantadosi, S. T., Sharma, A., Tanner, S., Undurraga, E. A. & Godoy, R. A., May 19 2018, In : Annals of Human Biology. 45, 4, p. 299-313 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Bolivia
Parturition
Growth
Growth Disorders
Puberty
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Brown adipose tissue, energy expenditure, and biomarkers of cardio-metabolic health among the Yakut (Sakha) of northeastern Siberia
Levy, S. B., Klimova, T. M., Zakharova, R. N., Federov, A. I., Fedorova, V. I., Baltakhinova, M. E. & Leonard, W., Nov 1 2018, In : American Journal of Human Biology. 30, 6, e23175.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Siberia
Brown Adipose Tissue
brown adipose tissue
energy expenditure
Energy Metabolism
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Centennial perspective on human adaptability
Leonard, W., Apr 1 2018, In : American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 165, 4, p. 813-833 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
2
Citations
(Scopus)
Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians
Undurraga, E. A., Behrman, J. R., Emmett, S. D., Kidd, C., Leonard, W., Piantadosi, S. T., Reyes-García, V., Sharma, A., Zhang, R. & Godoy, R. A., Jan 1 2018, In : American Journal of Human Biology. 30, 1, e23059.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Growth Disorders
human capital
growth retardation
Economics
writing skills