The main scientific areas of interest of the staff of the Institute of Anthropology PAS

The main scientific areas of interest of the staff of the Institute of Anthropology PAS

  • Social inequalities in premature mortality of adults in Poland - Dr. Halina Kolodziej
  • Factors that affect or modify children and youth growth and development with a special stress on the puberty - Assoc. Prof. Slawomir Koziel
  • Risk factors of overweight and obesity development in children and youth - Assoc. Prof. Slawomir Koziel
  • Marital status as a factor affecting the biological fitness of males - Dr. Anna Lipowicz
  • Biological condition of adults during the economic transition in Poland - Dr. Anna Lipowicz, Dr. Alicja Szklarska
  • Relationship between psychological well-being, social-economic position and biological condition of adult - Dr. Monika Lopuszanska
  • Human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology with the emphasis on – the factors influencing reproductive success - Assoc. Prof. Boguslaw Pawlowski
  • Mechanisms of human evolution, with the special regard of the evolution of sexual behaviour, subcutaneous fat tissue increase, female body shape and costs of the brain size increase in Plio-Pleistocene Homininae - Assoc. Prof. Boguslaw Pawlowski
  • The social mobility and health status - Dr. Alicja Szklarska, Dr. Anna Lipowicz, Assoc. Prof. Slawomir Koziel, Dr. Monika Lopuszanska, Assoc. Prof. Ewa Jankowska, Prof. Tadeusz Bielicki
  • The influence of lifestyle factors on the reproductive functions and level of steroid hormones during menstrual cycle - Dr. Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary
  • Human mate preferences,  the dynamics of the matrimonial market, and biological meaning of physical attractiveness - Assoc. Prof. Slawomir Koziel, Assoc. Prof. Boguslaw Pawlowski, Dr. Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary
  • Early developmental conditions influencing health status - Assoc. Prof. Slawomir Koziel, Dr. Anna Lipowicz, Dr. Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary
  • Factors influencing growth and maturation of children. Trends in height and BMI in Polish children. Migration. - Prof. Barbara Hulanicka