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Dr. Herman Ponzer - Hilliard Discussion 2017

Dr. Pontzer, professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the City University of New York, investigates energy expenditure and evolution in humans and other apes. Through laboratory and field studies, Dr. Pontzer’s work seeks to understand how our bodies evolved and how our deep past shapes our lives today. Using measures of daily energy expenditure in apes and hu-mans, Dr. Pontzer and colleagues recently discovered that humans have evolved a faster me-tabolism to fuel our large brains, physically active lifestyles, and larger babies. He also con-ducted the first measurements of daily energy expenditure in traditional hunter-gatherers, the Hadza of northern Tanzania. Surprisingly, despite lifestyles that are incredibly active, Dr. Pontzer and colleagues found that hunter-gatherers expend the same number of calories each day as sedentary Westerners. He is currently leading a multi-year effort to measure daily ener-gy expenditure in non-Western human populations around the globe to understand how differ-ences in daily energy requirements vary with respect to activity, diet, and other factors. If you enjoy these kind of topics, make sure you visit the Huffines Institute website at http://huffinesinstitute.org/. Audio and video podcasts are also available by downloading the Huffines Institute app, available in the Apple App Store and Google Play.