Robert Quinlan, Ph.D. 

I have broad interests in evolutionary ecology, biomedical anthropology, demography, kinship and families.  My research focuses on biosocial influences on human life history variation.  I am particularly interested in environmental and family effects on reproductive "strategies" that include the timing of weaning, pace of maturation, age at first birth, birth spacing, mating-parenting "effort", sex-biased parental care, and multigenerational reproductive "fitness".  I have related interests in psychosocial stress, health and child development. Since 1993 I have conducted fieldwork in a rural community in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies.