Charles L Nunn

Gosnell Family Professor in Global Health

Evolutionary Anthropology

clnunn@duke.edu

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Socioeconomic and demographic drivers of zoonotic interactions in rural Madagascar

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 2026 Link to item Cite

Potential human-to-human transmission of a zoonotic poxvirus in northeast Madagascar

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY · February 2026 Link to item Cite

Market integration, social networks, and cardiometabolic health in northeast Madagascar

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY · March 1, 2025 Link to item Cite

Application of regular equivalence block-modeling to identify epidemiological roles associated with hookworm infection in rural Madagascar

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · April 2024 Link to item Cite

Social transmission of Blastocystis spp. in rural Madagascar: disentangling the effect of household, friendship, and close contact networks

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · April 2023 Link to item Cite

Is Sleep Disturbance in Menopause Explained by Evolutionary Mismatch? Evidence from Three Cohorts of Guatemalan Maya

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 2021 Link to item Cite

Coevolution and coextinction of primates and their parasites

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Water availability, primate ranging behavior, and implications for parasite transmission: an experimental and observational study of wild red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in a dry deciduous forest

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Quantifying human uniqueness through phylogenetic comparative methods

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY · March 1, 2018 Link to item Cite

Human parasitism in a comparative context: Are humans exceptionally parasitized?

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · April 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

Unwelcome Guests: Human-rodent Commensalism and its Implications for Zoonotic Disease Transfer

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · April 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

A comparative analysis of evolutionary changes in human physiological traits

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Investigating musculoskeletal health and limb biomechanics in Mandena, Madagascar: A quantitative approach to understanding normal and pathological gait patterns

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Sleep duration, quality and timing in a non-electric population in Madagascar

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Shining Evolutionary Light on Human Sleep: Sleep Intensity and Human Cognition

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Parasite risk influences the water preferences of lemurs

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

MORE THAN JUST A NUMBERS GAME: POPULATIONS, NETWORKS, AND DISEASE DYNAMICS IN PRIMATES

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY · November 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Do parasites constrain group size? A phylogenetic comparative study and meta-analysis.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · January 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

Allometric slopes and independent contrasts: a comparative test of Kleiber's law in primate ranging patterns.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · January 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

The number of males in primate social groups: a comparative test of the socioecological model.

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · January 1, 1999 Link to item Cite