Berger, N.J., Best, R., Best, A.W., Lane, A.M., Millet, G.Y., Barwood, M., Marcora, S., Wilson, P. and Bearden, S. (2023). Limits of Ultra: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Ultra-Endurance Running Performance. Sports Medicine, pp.1-21.
Best, A.W., McGrosky, A., Swanson, Z., Rimbach, R., McConaughy, K., McConaughy, J., Ocobock, C. and Pontzer, H. (2023). Total Energy Expenditure and Nutritional Intake in Continuous Multiday Ultramarathon Events. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 1(aop), pp.1-7.
Best, A. W., Lieberman, D. E., Gerson, A. R., Holt, B. M., & Kamilar, J. M. (2023). Variation in human functional eccrine gland density and its implications for the evolution of human sweating. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.24723
Best, A. (2021). Why does strength training improve endurance performance? American Journal of Human Biology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23526
Dorshorst, T., Gold, C., & Best, A. (2021). The 90th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 30(4), 230-232.
Best, A., Lieberman, D. E., & Kamilar, J. M. (2019). Diversity and evolution of human eccrine sweat gland density. Journal of Thermal Biology.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456519302645
Best, A. and Kamilar, J.M. (2018). The evolution of eccrine sweat glands in human and nonhuman primates. Journal of Human Evolution, 117(4), 33- 43.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248417303652
Best A, Holt B, Troy K, Hamill J (2017). Trabecular bone in the calcaneus of runners. PLoS ONE, 12(11): e0188200.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188200
Best, A., & Braun, B. (2017). Using a novel data resource to explore heart rate during mountain and road running. Physiological Reports, 5(8), e13256.
http://physreports.physiology.org/content/5/8/e13256
Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Muldoon, K. M., Kelley, E. A., King, S. J., Best, A. W. and Berthaume, M. A. (2016), What did Hadropithecus eat, and why should paleoanthropologists care?. American Journal of Primatology, 78: 1098–1112. doi:10.1002/ajp.22506
Press/Media
July 2024, quoted in Gatopardo: "Nacidos para sudar: moleculas, glandulas y cerebro ante las olas de calor". link
May 2024, quoted in Vox: "Why are whole-body deodorants suddenly everywhere?" link
May 2024, quoted in The Economist: "Americans are fretting over their body odour". link
Oct 2023, paper featured in Le Monde: "Les ressorts de la performance en ultra-
endurance". link
Oct 2023, paper featured in Outside Online: "The limits of ultrarunning." link
Aug 2023, quoted in The Atlantic: "We must learn to love our sweat." link
Aug 2023, featured on CBS Sunday Morning: "Why you sweat, and why that's a good thing." link
Podcast guest, Eat Half Walk Double, episode 62. Aug 2023. link
June 2023, quoted in Men's Health: "How to make sweat your superpower." link
Podcast guest, Mikkipedia, episode 138. March 2023. link
Podcast guest, Koopcast, episode157. December 2022. link
July 2022, quoted in The Edge: "9 surprising things sweat can reveal about your health." link
July 2021, featured in The Scientist: "Giving sweat the respect it deserves." link
July 2021, featured in the book The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts. link
Podcast guest: "Short and Sweat". Origin Stories, Leakey Foundation Podcast. September 2021. link
November 2020, featured in Outside Online: "Rethinking the Cross-Training Paradox." link
Podcast guest: "How humans evolved to sweat". Let's Talk About Sweat, episode 3. April 2020. video
November 2019, UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences news: "Don't Sweat it: An Anthropological Look at the Science of Perspiration." link
July 2019, featured in PBS Nova: "Cool down with the slick science of sweat." link
September 2018, quoted in Science Magazine: "This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners—and helped humans conquer the world." link
Summer 2018, featured in UMass Magazine: "Inquiring Minds." link
Other invited talks
Guest lecture, "Endurance running and human evolution". Strive Running Camp, June 2024.
Lecture: "Feel the Burn: What are the limits of sustainable human energy expenditure?" Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Works in Progress series, March 2024.
Public talk: "To run is to sweat!" Boston Marathon Days, Museum of Science, Boston MA.
Lecture: "Ultramarathoners and the limits of human energy expenditure". University of Massachusetts Anthropology Facets of Evolution Colloqium series. November 2022. video
slides 1-8 missing from the video
Lecture: "Beating the heat: How sweating helped make us human". Mount Holyoke College Biological Sciences Seminar Series, March 2020. video
Lecture: "Beating the heat: How sweating helped make us human". Waikato Institute of Technology Research Bytes Seminar Series. April 2020. video
Lecture: "Endurance Running and Human Evolution". Sugarloaf Mountain Athletic Club annual dinner, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Oct 2023, paper featured in Le Monde: "Les ressorts de la performance en ultra-
endurance".
Oct 2023, paper featured in Outside Online: "The limits of ultrarunning." link
Aug 2023, featured on CBS Sunday Morning: "Why you sweat, and why that's a good thing." link
Podcast guest, Eat Half Walk Double, episode 62. Aug 2023. link
June 2023, quoted in Men's Health: "How to make sweat your superpower." link
Podcast guest, Mikkipedia, episode 138. March 2023. link
Podcast guest, Koopcast, episode157. December 2022. link
July 2022, quoted in The Edge: "9 surprising things sweat can reveal about your health." link
July 2021, featured in The Scientist: "Giving sweat the respect it deserves." link
July 2021, featured in the book The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts. link
Podcast guest: "Short and Sweat". Origin Stories, Leakey Foundation Podcast. September 2021. link
November 2020, featured in Outside Online: "Rethinking the Cross-Training Paradox." link
Podcast guest: "How humans evolved to sweat". Let's Talk About Sweat, episode 3. April 2020. video
November 2019, UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences news: "Don't Sweat it: An Anthropological Look at the Science of Perspiration." link
July 2019, featured in PBS Nova: "Cool down with the slick science of sweat." link
September 2018, quoted in Science Magazine: "This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners—and helped humans conquer the world." link
Summer 2018, featured in UMass Magazine: "Inquiring Minds." link
Lecture: "Ultramarathoners and the limits of human energy expenditure". University of Massachusetts Anthropology Facets of Evolution Colloqium series. November 2022. video
slides 1-8 missing from the video
Lecture: "Beating the heat: How sweating helped make us human". Mount Holyoke College Biological Sciences Seminar Series, March 2020. video
Lecture: "Beating the heat: How sweating helped make us human". Waikato Institute of Technology Research Bytes Seminar Series. April 2020. video
Lecture: "Endurance Running and Human Evolution". Sugarloaf Mountain Athletic Club annual dinner, 2016.