James W. Wood's Information
POSITION TITLE: Professor of Anthropology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Fertility analysis; reproductive biology; biodemography.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Linking Individual, Family, and Population Health over Time
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1982-1984 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Human Genetics, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
1984-1986 Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Mellon
Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center and Consortium for the Study of
Developmental and Reproductive Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1986-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Research Associate,
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1988-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Research Associate,
Population Issues Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
1990-1994 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Senior Research
Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
1994-Present Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Senior Research
Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1984-1986 Mellon Young Research Scientist Fellowship
1986 Nominated for membership, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (declined by nominee)
1988-1990 Associate Editor, Demography
1988-1991 Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
1988-1991 Editor for Biological Anthropology, Journal of Quantitative Anthropology
1993 Editorial Board, Social Biology
1993-1996 Vice President, Society for the Study of Social Biology
1998 W. W. Howell's Prize for Best Book in Biological Anthropology
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Wood, J.W.
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P.L. Johnson
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R.L. Kirk
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K. McLoughlin
,
N.M. Blake
and
F.A. Matheson
(1982).
"The Genetic Demography of the Gainj of Papua New Guinea: Local Differentiation of Blood Group, Red Cell Enzyme, and Serum Protein Allele Frequencies."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 57(1):15-25.
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Wood, J.W.
,
P.L. Johnson
and
K.L. Campbell
(1985).
"Demographic and Endocrinological Aspects of Low Natural Fertility in Highland New Guinea."
Journal of Biosocial Science 17(1):57-79.
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Wood, J.W.
,
D. Lai
,
P.L. Johnson
,
K.L. Campbell
and
I.A. Maslar
(1985).
"Lactation and Birth Spacing in Highland New Guinea."
Journal of Biosocial Science Supplement 9:159-173.
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Long, J.C.
,
J.M. Naidu
,
H.W. Mohrenweiser
,
H. Gershowitz
,
P.L. Johnson
,
J.W. Wood
and
P.E. Smouse
(1986).
"Genetic Characterization of Gainj and Kalam Speaking People of Papua New Guinea."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 70(1):75-96.
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Johnson, P.L.
,
J.W. Wood
,
K.L. Campbell
and
I.A. Maslar
(1987).
"Long Ovarian Cycles in Women of Highland New Guinea."
Human Biology 59(5):837-845.
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Wood, J.W.
(1989).
"Fecundability and Natural Fertility in Humans." In
Milligan, S.
(Ed.)
, Oxford Reviews of Reproductive Biology, Vol. II.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Johnson, P.L.
,
J.W. Wood
and
M. Weinstein
(1990).
"Female Fecundity in Highland Papua New Guinea."
Social Biology 37(1-2):26-43.
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Wood, J.W.
and
M. Weinstein
(1990).
"Heterogeneity in Fecundability: The Effect of Fetal Loss." In
Adams, J.
,
D.A. Lam
,
A.I. Hermalin
and
P.E. Smouse
(Eds.)
, Convergent Issues in Genetics and Demography.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Johnson, P.L.
and
J.W. Wood
(1991).
"The Gainj." In
Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
New Haven, CT:
Human Relations Area File Press.
(pp. 71-74)
Wood, J.W.
,
D.J. Holman
,
K.M. Weiss
,
A.V. Buchanan
and
B. LeFor
(1992).
"Hazards Models for Human Population Biology."
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 35:43-87.
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Wood, J.W.
(1994).
Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography.
Hawthorne, NY:
Aldine de Gruyter.
Wood, J.W.
(1994).
"Maternal Nutrition and Reproduction: Why Demographers and Physiologists Disagree about a Fundamental Relationship."
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 709:101-116.
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Wood, J.W.
,
D.J. Holman
,
A.I. Yashin
,
R.J. Peterson
,
M. Weinstein
and
M.C. Chang
(1994).
"A Multistate Model of Fecundability and Sterility."
Demography 31(3):403-426.
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Wood, J.W.
,
S.C. Weeks
,
G.R. Bentley
and
K.M. Weiss
(1994).
"Human Population Biology and the Evolution of Aging." In
Crews, D.E.
and
R.M. Garruto
(Eds.)
, Biological Anthropology and Aging: Perspectives on Human Variation over the Life Span.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Shell-Duncan, B.
and
J.W. Wood
(1997).
"The Evaluation of Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity Responsiveness and Nutritional Status as Predictors of Gastro-Intestinal and Acute Respiratory Infection: A Prospective Field Study among Traditional Nomadic Kenyan Children."
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 43:25-32.
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O'Connor, K.A.
,
D.J. Holman
and
J.W. Wood
(1998).
"Declining Fecundity and Ovarian Ageing in Natural Fertility Populations."
Maturitas 30(2):127-136.
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Wood, J.W.
(1998).
"A Theory of Preindustrial Population Dynamics: Demography, Economy, and Well-Being in Malthusian Systems."
Current Anthropology 39(1):99-135.
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Holman, D.J.
,
J.W. Wood
and
K.L. Campbell
(2000).
"Age-Dependent Decline of Female Fecundity is Caused by Early Fetal Loss." In
te Velde, E.R.
,
F. Broekmans
and
P.L. Pearson
(Eds.)
, Female Reproductive Ageing Chapter 9, Studies in Profertility Series volume 9.
Carnforth, UK:
Parthenon Publishing Group.
(pp. 123-136)
Holman, D.J.
and
J.W. Wood
(2001).
"Pregnancy Loss and Fecundability in Women." In
Ellison, P.E.
(Ed.)
, Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution.
Hawthorne, NY:
Aldine de Gruyter.
(pp. 15-38)
O'Connor, K.A.
,
D.J. Holman
and
J.W. Wood
(2001).
"Menstrual Cycle Variability and the Perimenopause."
American Journal of Human Biology 13(4):465-478.
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Wood, J.W.
,
D.J. Holman
and
K.A. O'Connor
(2001).
"Did Menopause Evolve by Antagonistic Pleiotropy?." In
Schultz, M.
(Ed.)
, Homo-unsere Herkunft und Zukunft.
Gottingen:
Cuvillier Verlag.
(pp. 483-490)
Holman, D.J.
,
K.A. O'Connor
and
J.W. Wood
(2002).
"Estimating Age-at-Death Distributions from Skeletal Samples: A Multivariate Latent Trait Approach." In
Hoppa, R.D.
and
J.W. Vaupel
(Eds.)
, Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
(pp. 222-242)
Wood, J.W.
,
D.J. Holman
,
K.A. O'Connor
and
R.J. Ferrell
(2002).
"Models of Human Mortality." In
Hoppa, R.D.
and
J.W. Vaupel
(Eds.)
, Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
(pp. 129-168)
O'Connor, K.A.
,
E. Brindle
,
D.J. Holman
,
N.A. Klein
,
M.R. Soules
,
K.L. Campbell
,
F. Kohen
,
C.J. Munro
,
J.B. Shofer
,
W.L. Lasley
and
J.W. Wood
(2003).
"Urinary Estrone Conjugate and Pregnanediol-3-Glucuronide Enzyme-Immunoassays for Population Research."
Clinical Chemistry 49(7):1139-1148.
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Wood, J.W.
and
S.N. Dewitte-Avina
(2003).
"Was the Black Death Yersinial Plague?."
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 3(6):327-328.
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Wood, J.W.
,
R.J. Ferrell
and
S.N. Dewitte-Avina
(2003).
"The Temporal Dynamics of the Fourteenth-Century Black Death: New Evidence from English Ecclesiastical Records."
Human Biology 75(4):427-448.
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Ferrell, R.J.
,
K.A. O'Connor
,
G. Rodriguez
,
T. Gorrindo
,
D.J. Holman
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
D.E. Schechter
,
L. Korshalla
,
J.A. Simon
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
J.W. Wood
and
M. Weinstein
(2005).
"Monitoring Reproductive Aging in a 5-Year Prospective Study: Aggregate and Individual Changes in Steroid Hormones and Menstrual Cycle Lengths with Age."
Menopause 12(5):567-577.
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Holman, D.J.
,
K.A. O'Connor
and
J.W. Wood
(2006).
"Age and Female Reproductive Function: Identifying the Most Important Biological Determinants." In
Sauvain-Dugerdil, C.
,
H. Leridon
and
C.G. Mascie-Taylor
(Eds.)
, Human Clocks: The Bio-Cultural Meanings of Age.
New York:
Peter Lang Publishing.
(pp. 171-199)
O'Connor, K.A.
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
J.B. Shofer
,
R.J. Ferrell
,
N.A. Klein
,
M.R. Soules
,
D.J. Holman
,
P.K. Mansfield
and
J.W. Wood
(2006).
"Ovulation Detection Methods for Urinary Hormones: Precision, Daily and Intermittent Sampling and a Combined Hierarchical Method."
Human Reproduction 21(6):1442-1452.
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Szlemko, W.J.
,
J.W. Wood
and
P.J. Thurman
(2006).
"Native Americans and Alcohol: Past, Present, and Future."
Journal of General Psychology 133(4):435-451.
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Ferrell, R.J.
,
R.J. O'Connor
,
D.J. Holman
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
G. Rodriguez
,
J.A. Simon
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
J.W. Wood
and
M. Weinstein
(2007).
"Monitoring Reproductive Aging in a 5-Year Prospective Study: Aggregate and Individual Changes in Luteinizing Hormone and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone with Age."
Menopause 14(1):29-37.
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DeWitte, S.N.
and
J.W. Wood
(2008).
"Selectivity of Black Death Mortality with Respect to Preexisting Health."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(5):1436-1441.
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