Dr. Wenda Trevathan is an anthropology regents’ professor emerita at New Mexico State University, where she taught from 1983 to 2009.

She’s a biological anthropologist who studies the evolutionary and biocultural factors that influence human reproduction, such as puberty, sexuality, maternal activity, and menopause.

Her main writings cover topics such as childbirth evolution and evolutionary medicine.
Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women’S Health and Costly And Cute: Helpless Infants And Human Evolution are two of her most recent ebooks.

She is also the Editor in Chief of the International Encyclopedia Of Biological Anthropology.

Physical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, and anthropology of reproduction are among the subjects she has taught.