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Feb 04, 1939 Cusco, Peru 85 years old
Peruvian anthropologist
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About A. Roberto Frisancho
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- Roberto Frisancho is a biological anthropologist and the Arthur F.
- Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
- He is the 2008 recipient of the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award in Anthropology bestowed by the American Human Biology Association.
- He is best known for his work on developmental human adaptation to extreme environments such as high altitudes, growth, anthropometry and evaluation of nutritional status.
- Specifically, he advanced the hypothesis and demonstrated that the origin of adult variability of biological phenotypic traits are function of the effects and adaptations to environmental conditions that the organism makes during the developmental stage.
- Within this conceptual framework, he has contributed numerous papers on bioenergetics, the nutrition and developmental determinants of pre-natal and post-natal growth including teenage pregnancy.
- In 2013, he received the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
