HEEP team invited to present Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis at the 2026 American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting

Danny had the pleasure of giving an invited talk at this year's American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (March, 2026)!

His talk, "Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis," co-authored with Colin Shaw, was part of the symposium "Climatic Adaptation and Beyond: Investigations into the Thermoregulatory Imperative," organised by Libby Cowgill, Scott Maddux, Elizabeth Cho and Cara Ocobock. Thanks to all four for putting together such a rich session!

Danny presented the ideas described in the group's recent Biological Reviews paper introducing the Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis, synthesising a wide body of observational and experimental evidence on how industrialised environments affect reproductive, immune, cognitive and physical function. He also shared the group's own experimental findings, including work by former and current HEEP PhD students Yvanna Todorova, Matt Putland and Mate Szazvai, asking whether the rate of environmental industrialisation is outpacing our capacity to adapt and what that might mean for human evolutionary fitness.