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William R. Leonard is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with specific contributions to subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Leonard's scholarly work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Their recent papers reflect engagement with energy expenditure, metabolism, and environmental factors influencing human health. These include:

  • "Daily energy expenditure through the human life course," 2021, Science
  • "A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies," 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
  • "Energy compensation and adiposity in humans," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors," 2022, Science
  • "Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure," 2023, Nature Metabolism

Leonard publishes frequently in venues such as the American Journal of Human Biology, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Science, Nature Food, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Peter T. Katzmarzyk
  • John R. Speakman
  • Herman Pontzer
  • Yosuke Yamada
  • Hiroyuki Sagayama

Best Publications

  • Three limitations of the body mass index

    Stanley M Garn;William R Leonard;Victor M Hawthorne

  • Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

    Christopher W. Kuzawa;Harry T. Chugani;Lawrence I. Grossman;Leonard Lipovich

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

    Herman Pontzer;Yosuke Yamada;Hiroyuki Sagayama;Philip N. Ainslie

  • Climatic influences on human body size and proportions: Ecological adaptations and secular trends

    Peter T. Katzmarzyk;William R. Leonard

  • Evolutionary perspectives on human nutrition: The influence of brain and body size on diet and metabolism.

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Comparative primate energetics and hominid evolution

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES

    Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-García;Elizabeth Byron;William R. Leonard

  • Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution.

    William R Leonard;Marcia L Robertson;J.Josh Snodgrass;Christopher W Kuzawa

  • Demographic and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Psychological Distress and Resilience Among Transgender Individuals.

    Emily Bariola;Anthony Lyons;William Leonard;Marian Pitts

  • CULTURAL, PRACTICAL, AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILD PLANTS: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON

    Victoria Reyes-García;Tomás Huanca;Vincent Vadez;William Leonard

  • Nutritional requirements and human evolution: A bioenergetics model

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Effects of Brain Evolution on Human Nutrition and Metabolism

    William R. Leonard;J. Josh Snodgrass;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest

    Kris N Kirby;Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-Garcı́a;Elizabeth Byron

  • The Central Siberian Origin for Native American Y Chromosomes

    Fabrício R. Santos;Fabrício R. Santos;Arpita Pandya;Chris Tyler-Smith;Sérgio D.J. Pena

  • 15O PET Measurement of Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption in Cold-Activated Human Brown Fat

    Otto Muzik;Thomas J. Mangner;William R. Leonard;Ajay Kumar

  • Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: an empirical analysis from an Amerindian society☆

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;James Broesch;Laura Calvet-Mir;Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

  • Climatic influences on basal metabolic rates among circumpolar populations.

    William R. Leonard;Mark V. Sorensen;Victoria A. Galloway;Gary J. Spencer

  • An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa

    S. C. Antón;W. R. Leonard;M. L. Robertson

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon

    Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;P. Blackinton;S. Tanner

  • Private Lives 2 : The second national survey of the health and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Australians.

    William. Leonard;Marian. Pitts;Anne Mitchell;Anthony. Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ricardo Godoy
Ricardo Godoy Brandeis University
Tomás Huanca
Tomás Huanca Brandeis University
Vincent Vadez
Vincent Vadez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jayne Lucke
Jayne Lucke La Trobe University
Anthony Lyons
Anthony Lyons La Trobe University
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Marian Pitts
Marian Pitts La Trobe University
Anthony G. Comuzzie
Anthony G. Comuzzie Obesity Society
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University

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