MICHAEL A. LITTLE

Email: mlittle@binghamton.edu

(PhD Pennsylvania State University 1968), Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, is a biological anthropologist with interests in adaptation to environmental stress in living human populations, and who approaches anthropological science from biocultural, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives. He has conducted research with high-altitude Quechua Indians of Peru within the framework of adaptation to cold and hypoxia, and with nomadic Turkana pastoralists of NW Kenya within the framework of child growth, reproductive ecology, and general health and adaptability. His current interests lie in the history of biological anthropology.

In Press.  Little, M.A. and A.T. Steegmann, Jr. Acclimatization and adaptation: responses to cold. In Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 3: Environment, Origins and Populations , ed. by D.H. Ubelaker. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

In Press.  Little, M.A. and R.M. Garruto.  Global impacts of anthropogenic climate change on human health and adaptability.  In: The Anthropologist – Anthropology Today (Trends, Scopes and Applications) , ed. by M.K. Bhasin. Delhi, India.

2005.  Little, M.A. and G.D. James. A brief history of the Human Biology Association:1974-2004. American Journal of Human Biology 17:141-154.

2005.  Campbell, B.C., P.W. Leslie, M.A. Little, and K.C. Campbell. Pubertal timing, hormones, and body composition among adolescent Turkana males. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128:896-905.

2005.  Alfonso, M.P. and M.A. Little (transl. & ed.). Juan Comas's Summary History of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1928-1968). Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 48:163-195.

Course for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 337, ANTH 543

 

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