Darryl Holman's Research

I am a biological anthropologist and demographer with broad interests in anthropological demography. An overview of my approach to research can be found here. For a geographic perspective on my research, click here. Follow the links to find more information about my research projects.

Estimating human fecundability and pregnancy loss

Biodemographic models of ovarian and reproductive aging

Ecology of breastfeeding behavior

Statistical methods for paleodemography

Measuring developmental stability of morphometric traits

Biometric investigations of deciduous tooth emergence

mle - a programming language for developing stochastic models

The following map shows some places my research takes me. Aside from the U.S. and Bangladesh, where I have done real field work, research in other areas is based on analysis of data sets or based on the field work of students.

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Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps used with permission.