Lorena Madrigal
Lorena Madrigal
Professor
Contact
Office: SOC 143
Phone: 813/974-0817
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Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Kansas
M.A., Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
B.S., Anthropology, University of Utah
Teaching
Biological Anthropology, Human Variation, Human Evolution, Human Biology of Caribbean Groups, Seminar in Physical Anthropology, Anthropological Genetics, Quantitative Methods, Advanced Quantitative Methods
Research
biological anthropology, human demography, population genetics, human biology; Costa Rica
Graduate Students
Caroline Peterson, Michelle H. Raxter, Chrystal Smith
Specialty Area
Dr. Madrigal is interested in human microevolution, and has used demographic and population genetics approaches towards understanding it. Most of her work has taken place in Costa Rica. In collaboration with her colleagues from the Universidad de Costa Rica, Dr. Madrigal has collected data on living subjects and traced their maternal genealogies, in many cases for several centuries. With this data set, Madrigal and colleagues have presented a strong challenge to the grandmother hypothesis, which seeks to explain the evolution of post-menopausal longevity in humans. Madrigal et al. have also done work with populations of African and East Indian descent in Costa Rica. The broad interest of this project has been to trace the evolution of these communities, whether by gene flow, genetic drift, etc. In addition, Madrigal and collaborators are studying the cardiovascular health of these two communities, within the context of the economic development of their region.
Current Courses
Recent Journal Articles
Madrigal, L. and Melendez-Obando, M. Grandmothers' longevity negatively
affects daughters' fertility. 2007. In press, American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
Madrigal L and Kelly W. 2007a. Human skin color sexual dimorphism: A test
of the sexual selection hypothesis. Reply. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133 (1): 780-781
MAY 2007 download PDF
Loredana Castrì , Flory Otárola, Mwenza Blell, Ramiro Barrantes, Donata
Luiselli, Davide Pettener, Ernesto Ruiz and Lorena Madrigal. 2007b.
Indentured migration and differential gender gene flow: the origin and
evolution of the East-Indian community of Limón, Costa Rica. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 109 (2): 330-337 JUN 2007download PDF
Madrigal L, Ware B, Hagen E, Blell M , and Otárola F. June, 2007c. The
East-Indian diaspora in Costa Rica: Inbreeding avoidance, marriage
patterns and cultural survival. American Anthropologist. 109 (2): 330-337.download PDF
Madrigal L and Kelly W. 2007d. Human skin color sexual dimorphism: A test
of the sexual selection hypothesis. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. 132:470-482.download PDF
Madrigal L and T. Koertvelyessy. 2003a. Epidemic cycles in
agricultural populations: A cross-cultural study. Human
Biology. 75(3):345-354.download PDF
Madrigal L, B. Ware and M. Melendez. 2003b. Widow and widower remarriage in a rural 19th Century Costa Rican population: a cross-cultural discussion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 122(4):355-360.download PDF
Madrigal L, J. Relethford, and Michael H. Crawford. 2003c.
Heritability and anthropometric influences on human
fertility: A path analysis. American Journal of Human
Biology. 15:16-22.download PDF
Madrigal L, B. Ware, R. Miller, G. Saenz, M. Chavez and D. Dykes. 2001a.
Ethnicity, gene flow and population subdivision in Limón, Costa Rica.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 114:99-108download PDF
Madrigal L, G. Saenz, M. Chavez, and D. Dykes. 2001b. The frequency of twinning in two Costa Rican ethnic groups: An update. American Journal of Human Biology. 13:220-226.download PDF
Books
Madrigal L. Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean populations.
2006. Cambridge University Press.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521819312
Madrigal L. 1998. Statistics for anthropology. Cambridge
University Press.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521577861
Recent Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Lorena Madrigal, Mwenza Blell, Ernesto Ruiz, Flory Otarola. In print. The
Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation
for Hypertension Prevalence Rate (HPR) Inequalities. 2008 In: Health,
Risk, And Adversity:
A Contextual View From Biological Anthropology. Edited by A. Fuentes and
C. Panter-Brick. Berghahn Books. London.
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=Panter-BrickHealth
Madrigal L and Barbujani G. 2007. Partitioning of genetic variation in
human populations and the concept of race. In: Anthropological Genetics:
Theory, Methods And Applications. Edited by M.H. Crawford. Cambridge
University Press: 17-37.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521546973