Darryl Holman's Research

Darryl Holman's Research: Bangladesh

Bangladesh has been the primary geographic focus of my research. My dissertation research was a study of birth interval dynamics conducted in Matlab thana, a rural administrative district SE of Dhaka. In particular, I was trying to estimate total fecundability and total pregnancy loss from a prospective endocrine study (more information). The findings from that study include Holman (1996, 2000), Holman et al. (in press b), Holman et al. (2000), Holman and Wood (2000), O'Connor et al. (1998).

Michael Grimes, Kathleen O'Connor, and I have been investigating breastfeeding behavior in rural Bangladeshi women. A series of paper have discussed the initiation of breastfeeding in Bangladesh (Holman and Grimes, 2001, 2003; Holman et al., in press a). We are currently investigating the distrubution of postpartum amenorrhea, and the effect of breastfeeding on fecundability (more information).

Robert E. Jones and I have been investigating human variation in deciduous tooth emergence ( more information). One of the populations included in our studies is from rural Bangladesh. This group was part of the Meheran Growth and Development study conducted in the 1970. Results from Bangladesh include Holman and Jones (1998, 2003), Holman et al. (submitted), Konigsberg and Holman (1999).

References cited

Holman DJ (1996) Total Fecundability and Fetal Loss in Rural Bangladesh. Doctoral Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Holman DJ (2000) Biology, Culture and Demography: Interdisciplinary Opportunities and Directions in Population Research. Visions of the Future: New Scientific Opportunities and Emerging Directions in Population Research. Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Development. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/cpr/dbs/sp/holman.htm.

Holman DJ, Grimes MA, Brindle E and O'Connor KA. (in press a) Hormonal correlates for the initiation of breastfeeding in Bangladeshi women. Hormones and Behavior. (Also Working paper 03-01 Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, University of Washington).

Holman DJ, Grimes MA. (2003) Patterns for the initiation of breastfeeding in humans. The American Journal of Human Biology 15:765-780.

Holman DJ, O'Connor KA, Wood JW (in press b) Age and female reproductive function: Identifying the most important biological determinants. In Hill A, Mascie-Taylor N, Leridon H, Sauvain-Dugerdil C (eds.) Age: Human Clock and Scale of Social Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Holman DJ and Jones RE (1998) Longitudinal analysis of deciduous tooth emergence II: Parametric survival analysis in Bangladeshi, Guatemalan, Japanese and Javanese children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105(2):209-30.

Holman DJ, Jones RE (2003) Longitudinal analysis of deciduous tooth emergence: III. Sexual dimorphism in Bangladeshi, Guatemalan, Japanese and Javanese children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 122:269-278.

Holman DJ, Wood JW, and Campbell KL (2000a) Age-dependent decline of female fecundity is caused by early fetal loss. Chapter 9 in te Velde ER, Broekmans F, and Pearson P (eds.) Female Reproductive Ageing. Studies in Profertility series, Vol 9, Carnforth, UK: Parthenon Publishing Group. pp. 123-136.

Holman DJ, Grimes MA. (2001) Colostrum feeding behaviour and initiation of breast-feeding in rural Bangladesh. The Journal of Biosocial Science 33:139-54.

Holman DJ, Wood JW (2001) Pregnancy loss and fecundability in women. In Ellison PT (ed.) Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. pp. 15-38.

Holman DJ, O'Connor KA, Jones RE. (submitted) Assessing biological mortality bias in deciduous tooth emergence.

Konigsberg L, Holman DJ (1999) Estimation of age at death from dental emergence and implications for studies of prehistoric somatic growth. In Hoppa RD and Fitzgerald CM (eds.) Human Growth in the Past: Studies from Bones and Teeth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 264-289.

O'Connor KA, Holman DJ and Wood JW (1998) Declining fecundity and ovarian aging in natural fertility populations. Maturitas. 30:127-136.