About Stephanie Welch

Stephanie Welch is a disruptive anthropologist, ancestral health advocate, and pioneer of Evolutionary Feminism. Since 2010, she has applied an evolutionary lens to examine and challenge many commonly held beliefs and taboos that prevent us from attaining our full human potential. Her relentless study and experiential research asserts that human flourishing depends on reducing the mismatches between the environments and behaviors that our genetic programming expects and those which our modern civilization actually provides.

With an academic background in humanities (B.A. in Classics and M.A. in Art History), many years as a professional massage therapist, a personal dedication to exploring the boundaries of relationships and sexuality, and a penchant for topics as diverse as neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, biomechanics, nutrition, and Buddhist and Stoic philosophies, she brings a highly multidisciplinary approach to promoting human flourishing.

Check out some of her work:

  • Video Presentations:

AHS 2021: Energy Management: The Common Theme in Ancestral Health and Evolutionary Medicine

PAH 2020: Therapeutic Fasting: A Non-Invasive, Evolutionarily Based, and Effective Intervention

AHS 2019: Tribal Living: How Might an Ancestrally Inspired, Gender-Segregated Housing Model Outperform the Nuclear Family as the Basic Domestic Unit of Society?

PAH 2017: Not So Vestigial: The Anatomy and Functions of Male Foreskin

  • Poster Presentations (Ancestral Health Symposium):

August 2022: Skin Hunger: Touch Deprivation in the Era of Covid-19

July 2018: Circumcision Is Not Paleo

July 2017: Evolutionary Feminism

August 2016: Shoes Are Not Paleo

  • Published Articles:

Welch, Stephanie (2019) “The “Benefits,” Risks, and Costs of Routine Infant Circumcision,”Journal of Evolution and Health: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1102

Welch, Stephanie (2017) “Shoes Are Not Paleo,” Journal of Evolution and Health: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1058

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