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Bright, Jason, S. R. Simms, and A. Ugan. Plain gray ceramics and adaptive diversity: Residential and logistic mobility in farmer-forager systems.
Broughton,
J.M., and M.D. Cannon, editors. Evolutionary
Ecology and Archaeology: Applications to Problems in Human Evolution
and Prehistory.
Heath, K. M., and L. M. Gant. Risky sexual behavior as an adaptation to HIV/AIDS.
Helle S, Russell AF, and Lummaa V. Delivering sons accelerates immunosenescense in resource-limited pre-industrial mothers.
Henrich,
Joseph. A Cultural
Species. In Towards a Scientific Concept of Culture, edited by
Melissa
Brown.
Irons, W., and R. Sosis. The evolutionary
foundation of
religion.
Kramer, Karen. Generational transfers across the life cycle of the family: A cross-cultural perspective.
Lende, D., and C. Worthman. The ties that bind: Social relationships in human life history.
Mace, R. The evolutionary ecology of sex-biased investment.
Marlowe, F.W. The mating effort of Hadza men.
Marlowe, F.W., and Yang, A. The sharing game in
two societies.
Patton, J. Conflict, cooperation and coalitions: Political influences on the behavioral ecology of horticultural-foragers in the upper Amazon.
Rende Taylor, Lisa. Globalization and the
future of matrilineal systems in Southeast Asia.
Ruttan, L. M. Economic heterogeneity and the commons: Effects on collective action and collective goods provisioning.
Ruttan, L.M. Sociocultural heterogeneity and the commons.
Ruttan, L.M., Franzen, M., Bettinger, R. and P. J. Richerson. Analysis of a sample of ethnic boundaries.
Sherry, D.S., and Marlowe, F.W. Seasonal patterns in the dietary composition of Hadza foragers.
Snyder, K. Perceptions of work-related health
and safety
risks and resource security for female agricultural workers.
Sugiyama, Larry. Pathology risk and temporary
disability
among the Shiwiar.
Tucker, Bram. Perception of interannual risk and covariance among the Mikea and their neighbors in Madagascar.
Winking, J., H. Kaplan, and M. Gurven. The evolution of the post-reproductive lifespan.
Barber, Nigel. (in press) Divorce and reduced economic and emotional interdependence: A cross-national study. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.
Barber, Nigel. (in press) The sex ratio and female marital opportunity as predictors of violent crime in England, Scotland, and the U.S. Cross-Cultural Research.
Barber, Nigel. (in press) Educational and
ecological
correlates of IQ scores: A cross-national investigation. Intelligence.
Barber, Nigel. (in press) Is the effect of
national wealth
on academic achievement mediated by mass media and computers? Cross-Cultural Research.
Barber, Nigel. (in
press) Why is violent crime so common in the Americas? Aggressive Behavior.
Brown RA, Worthman CM, Costello EJ, and Erkanli A. (in press) The life trajectory interview for youth (LTI-Y): Method development and psychometrics of an instrument to assess life course models and achievement. International Journal for Methods in Psychiatric Research.
Gintis, Herbert, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr. (in press) Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Hagen, E.H. (in press) Controversies
surrounding
evolutionary psychology. In The
Evolutionary Psychology Handbook, D. Buss, ed.
Wiley.
Henrich, Joseph. (in press) Understanding cultural evolutionary models: A reply to Read's critique. American Antiquity.
Rucas, S.L, Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Winking, J., Gangestad, S., and Crespo, M. (in press) Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia. Evolution and Human Behavior.
Waynforth, D., S. Delwadia, and M. Camm. (in
press) The
influence of women's mating strategies on preference for masculine
facial architecture. Evolution and
Human Behavior.
Aldenderfer, Mark. 2006. Costly signaling, the
sexual division of labor, and animal domestication in the Andean highlands. In
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture, D.J. Kennett and B.
Winterhalder, eds., pp. 167-196.
Barlow, K. Renee. 2006. A formal model for predicting the
origins of maize-based food production on the Pacific coast of southern
Benyshek, Daniel C., and James T. Watson. 2006. Exploring the thrifty genotype's food-shortage assumptions: A cross-cultural comparison of ethnographic accounts of food security among foraging and agricultural societies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131(1): 120-126.
Bettinger, Robert. 2006. Agriculture, archaeology, and human
behavioral ecology. In Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture,
D.J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, eds., pp. 304-322.
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, and Carl McCabe. 2006. Whatever happened to human sociobiology? Anthropology Today 22(1): 22.
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Charles L. Nunn, and Mary C. Towner. 2006. Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits. Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 52-64.
Campbell, Benjamin. 2006. Adrenarche and the evolution of
human life history. American Journal of
Human Biology 18(5): 569-589.
Crognier, E., A. Baali, M.-K. Hilali, M. Villena, E. Vargas. 2006. Preference for sons and sex ratio in two non-western societies. American Journal of Human Biology 18: 325-334.
Cronk, Lee. 2006. Behavioral ecology and the social
sciences. In Missing the Revolution:
Evolutionary Psychology for Social Scientists, edited by Jerome Barkow. Pp.
167-185.
Gibson M., and R. Mace 2006. An energy-saving development
initiative increases birth rate and childhood malnutrition in rural
Godoy, Ricardo, Victoria Reyes-García, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner, William R. Leonard, Tomás Huanca, Vincent Vadez, and Karishma Patel. 2006. Why Do mothers favor girls and fathers, boys?: A hypothesis and a test of investment disparity. Human Nature 17(2): 169-189.
Gray, J. Patrick. 2006. On artificial trends in comparative studies using standard cross-cultural sample data possibility and probability. Current Anthropology 47(1): 149-151.
Gurven, Michael. 2006. The evolution of contingent cooperation. Current Anthropology 47(1): 185-192.
Gurven, M., and R. Walker. 2006. Energetic demand of multiple dependents and the evolution of slow human growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 273: 835-841.
Hadley, Craig, and Crystal L. Patil. 2006. Food
insecurity in rural
Hobcraft, John. 2006. The ABC of demographic behaviour: How
the interplays of alleles, brains, and contexts over the life course should
shape research aimed at understanding population processes. Population Studies 60(2): 153-187.
Hrushka, Daniel, and Joseph Henrich. 2006. Friendship, cliquishness, and the emergence of cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 239(1): 1-15.
Jasienska, Grazyna, Ilona Nenko, and Michal Jasienski. 2006. Daughters increase longevity of fathers, but daughters and sons equally reduce longevity of mothers. American Journal of Human Biology 18: 422-425.
Kennett, Douglas J., and Bruce Winterhalder. 2006. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to
Agriculture.
Kramer, Karen L., and Garnett P. McMillan. 2006. The effect of labor-saving technology on longitudinal fertility changes. Current Anthropology 47(1): 165-172.
Kruger, Daniel J., and Randolph M. Nesse. 2006. An
evolutionary life-history framework for understanding sex differences in human
mortality rates. Human Nature 17: 74-97.
McClure, Sarah B., Michael A. Jochim, and C. Michael Barton.
2006. Human behavioral ecology, domestic animals, and land use during the
transition to agriculture in
McCorriston, Joy. 2006. Breaking the rain barrier and the
tropical spread of near eastern agriculture in southern
Piperno, Dolores R. 2006. The origins of plant cultivation
and domestication in the neotropics: A behavioral ecological perspective. In
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture, D.J. Kennett and B.
Winterhalder, eds., pp. 137-166.
Smith, Bruce D. 2006. Human behavioral ecology and the
transition to food production. In Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to
Agriculture, D.J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, eds., pp. 289-304.
Tooley GA, Karakis M, Stokes M, Ozanne-Smith J. 2006. Generalizing
the Cinderella Effect to unintentional childhood fatalities. Evolution and
Human Behavior 27(3): 224-230.
Tucker, Bram. 2006. A future discounting explanation for the
persistence of a mixed foraging-horticulture strategy among the Mikea of
Madagascar. In Behavioral Ecology and the
Transition to Agriculture, edited by D. J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder.
Walker, R., M. Gurven, K. Hill, A. Migliano, N. Chagnon, R. De Souza, G. Djurovic, R. Hames, A. M. Hurtado, H. Kaplan, K. Kramer, W. J. Oliver, C. Valeggia, and T. Yamauchi. 2006. Growth rates and life histories in 22 small-scale societies. American Journal of Human Biology 18: 295-311.
Wilkins, J.F., Marlowe, F.W. 2006. Sex-biased migration in humans: What should we expect from genetic data? BioEssays 28: 290-300.
Beise, Jan. 2005. The helping and the helpful grandmother:
The role of maternal and paternal grandmothers in child mortality in the
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century population of French settlers in
Voland, Eckart and Athanasios Chasiotis and Wulf Schiefenhovel.
2005. Introduction: Grandmotherhood: A short overview of three fields of
research on the evolutionary significance of postgenerative female life. In Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary
Significance of the Second Half of the Female Life. Edited by E. Voland, C.
Athanasios, and
Bock, J. 2005. Farming, foraging, and
children’s play in
the Okavango Delta, Botswana. In A. Pellegrini and P.K. Smith, eds. The Nature
of Play: Great Apes and Humans. New York: Guilford, pp. 254-281.
Bock, J. 2005. What makes a competent adult
forager? In B.
Hewlett and M. Lamb, eds. Hunter-Gatherer
Childhoods. Somerset, NJ: Aldine Transaction,
pp. 109-128.
Brown, William M., Lee Cronk, Amy Jacobson, Keith Grochow,
C. Karen Liu, Zoran Popovic, and Robert Trivers. 2005. Dance reveals symmetry
especially in young men. Nature
438: 1148-1150.
Caldwell, John C. 2005. On net intergenerational wealth flows: An update. Population and Development Review 31(4): 721-740.
Chisholm, James S., Julie A. Quinlivan, Rodney W. Petersen, and David A. Coall. 2005. Early stress predicts age at menarche and first birth, adult attachment and expectedlifespan. Human Nature 16(3): 233-265.
Cronk, Lee. 2005. The application of animal signaling theory to human phenomena: Some thoughts and clarifications. Social Science Information/Information sur les Sciences Sociales 44(4): 603-620.
Dressler, William W. 2005. What's cultural about biocultural research? Ethos 2005 33(1): 20-45.