![]() ![]() About 90 percent of people agreed to participate. “Everything is up to the person-what they want to do and don’t want to do,” Kaplan says. They collected data from those willing to share it and provided health care to those who wanted it. Between 20, Kaplan led a mobile team of doctors, lab biochemists, and anthropologists-more than half of whom were from the Indigenous population-to more than 100 villages. His life’s work is to study how people in their society age compared to people in the United States and Europe. The routine was familiar for Hillard Kaplan, an anthropology and health economics professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, who has been working alongside the Tsimane for 20 years. ![]() Later-if they desire-the interviewees will take a drive to the nearby city of Trinidad to get their brains scanned. ![]() While they wait to speak with a doctor, people give interviews to fellow Tsimane who are collecting anthropological data. Respiratory tests under one tarp artery stiffness measurements under another. Each has been asked to fast until after they’ve had a voluntary medical exam. ![]()
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