Biography
Diana Sherry is a biological anthropologist whose research has combined field and laboratory methods to study evolutionary aspects of human physiology and ecology and their implications for public health. For example, she has studied the effects of body weight and insulin levels on reproductive hormones in Samoan women in the context of a modernizing society, as well as the nutritional ecology of Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania in relation to seasonal resource availability. Dr. Sherry co-edited The Arc of Life: Evolution and Health Across the Life Course (2017) featuring bio-anthropologists at the forefront of evolutionary medicine. Current interests include the relationship between contemporary environments, ancestral physiology, and metabolic disorders as well as educational outreach as a public health strategy, especially for youth.