Barry Bogin | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Barry Bogin is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology of the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK and William E Stirton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Temple University in 1977. Bogin has expertise in human physical growth and development, nutritional ecology, evolutionary biology, Maya people, and human adaptation. He has authored more than 240 books, articles, book chapters, and popular essays. These include the books Patterns of Human Growth, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Further reading:

Barry Bogin, Jared Bragg, Christoper Kuzawa (2014) Humans are not cooperative breeders but practice biocultural reproduction. Annals of Human Biology, 41(4):368-80.

Barry Bogin, Carlos Varea, Michael Hermanussen, Christiane Scheffler (2018) Human life course biology: A Centennial Perspective of scholarship on the human pattern of physical growth and its place in human biocultural evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165:834–854.

URLs:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/barry-bogin/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry_Bogin

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=si5nSQkAAAAJ&hl=en

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Biological Anthropology, Developmental Biology, Evolution, Human Development, Life History, Nutrition, Paleoanthropology

MOCA Domain Leader:

Development

MOCA Topic Author

Listed here are the 12 MOCA topics for which this person is an author.

Topic	Domain
Adolescence Duration and Characteristics	Development
Adolescent Growth Spurt	Development
Adrenarche	Development
Childhood	Development
Construction of Shelters	Culture
Duration of Lactation	Development
Juvenile Stage	Development
Neoteny - Biological	Development
Nutritional Requirements During Different Life Stages	Nutrition
Onset of Puberty	Development
Parental Investment	General Life History
Rate of CNS Development	Development

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 3 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Session	Symposium
2025-05-16	What makes people care? An anthropologist’s view of Biocultural Reproduction — the human style of hyper-cooperation	Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease
2020-10-24	Childhood	Comparative Anthropogeny: Exploring The Human-Ape Paradox
2012-12-07	Impact of Globalization on Children's Nutrition	The Evolution of Human Nutrition