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Benjamin C. Trumble

Researcher at Arizona State University

Publications -  93
Citations -  2585

Benjamin C. Trumble is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 76 publications receiving 1903 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin C. Trumble include University of California, Santa Barbara & University of Washington.

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The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine.

TL;DR: The Tsimane Health and Life History Project, an integrated bio‐behavioral study of the human life course, is designed to test competing hypotheses of human life‐history evolution to understand the bidirectional connections between life history and social behavior in a high‐fertility, kin‐based context lacking amenities of modern urban life.
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Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women.

TL;DR: Investigation of associations between intestinal helminths and fertility in women in Bolivia found that different species of helminth are associated with contrasting effects on fecundity, and infection with roundworm and hookworm is associated with earlier first births and shortened interbirth intervals.
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The Pregnancy Pickle: Evolved Immune Compensation Due to Pregnancy Underlies Sex Differences in Human Diseases.

TL;DR: It is proposed that, ancestrally, sex-specific immune modulation evolved to facilitate survival of the pregnant person in the presence of an invasive placenta and an immunologically challenging pregnancy - an idea known as the 'pregnancy compensation hypothesis' (PCH).