Research
Family Demography Publications
"Metapopulation dynamics of infectious disease transmission in a small-scale Amazonian society. "
PLoS Biology 21(8): e3002108.
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"Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life? "
PloS one 18.6(e0287901.
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"Bridging clinic and wildlife care with AI-powered pan-species computational pathology. "
Nature Communications. 14.1: 2408.
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"Why marry early? Parental influence, agency and gendered conflict in Tanzanian marriages. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e49
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"Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. "
PNAS 120(22):e2220124120.
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"Brain volume, energy balance and cardiovascular health in two non-industrial South American populations. "
PNAS 120(13):e2205448120.
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"Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies. "
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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" Labour’s pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear, and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222497.
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"Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with higher fecundity in a natural fertility population. "
Science Advances 9:eade979.
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". Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers. "
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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"Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure. "
Nature Metabolism 5:579-588.
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"Energetic costs of testosterone in two subsistence populatons. "
American Journal of Human Biology e23949.
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"Atherosclerosis in indigenous Tsimane: a contemporary perspective. "
Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease. Ed. M. Binder, C.A. Roberts, D. Antoine. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 246-257.
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"The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research. "
European Journal of Epidemiology. 1-6.
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"Repercussions of post-marital residence on mothers’ social support networks among Tsimane forager-farmers. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20210442.
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"Doubly Labeled Water Database Consortium. Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors. "
Science 378(6622):909-915.
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"Female cooperative labor networks in hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20210431.
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" Human milk oligosaccharide compositions illustrate global variations in early nutrition. "
Journal of Nutrition 152(5):1239-1253.
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"Natural selection of immune and metabolic genes associated with health in two lowland Bolivian populations. "
PNAS 120(1): e2207544120.
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"Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda. "
Behaviour, 159(10), 961-987. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10160
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"Early life adversity, reproductive history, and breast cancer risk. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.
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"Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in indigenous Bolivian forager-horticulturalists. "
Alzheimers & Dementia.
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"Positive correlation between women’s status and intimate partner violence suggests violence backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania. "
Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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"The importance of elders: Extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(28), e2200073119.
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"Of elephants and other mammals: A comparative review of reproductive tumors and potential impact on conservation. "
Animals. 2022 In Press.
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"Wins and losses in intergroup conflicts reflect energy balance in red-tailed monkeys."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1851), 20210152.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0152
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"Navigational experience and the preservation of spatial abilities into old age among a tropical forager-farmer population. "
Topics in Cognitive Science.
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"Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females. "
J of Human Evolution.
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"Cancer susceptibility as a cost of reproduction and contributor to life history evolution. "
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10 (2022): 861103.
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"The importance of elders: extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "
PNAS 119(28):e2200073119.
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"Female Health Across the Tree of Life: Insights at the Intersection of Women's Health, One Health and Planetary Health. "
PNAS nexus 1.2 (2022): pgac044.
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"Cultural variation in running techniques among non-industrial societies. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences 4:e14.
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"Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among the Amazonian Tsimane. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences.
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"Human total, basal and activity energy expenditures are independent of ambient environmental temperature. "
iScience 25:104682.
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"Niche diversity predicts personality structure across 115 nations. "
Psychological Science 33(2):285-298.
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"IAEA DLW Database Consortium. Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition. "
Nature Communications 13:99.
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"Socioeconomic status effects on health vary between rural and urban Turkana. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:406-419, eoab39. [“Editor’s choice” article]
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"Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane hunter-horticulturalists. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:349-359, eoab035. (*=co-senior author).
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"A biological approach to adult sex differences in skeletal indicators of childhood stress. "
American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24424
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"Elephant genome reveal accelerated evolution in mechanisms underlying disease defenses. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38.9 3606-3620.
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"The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. "
Science 374: eabf0130. (*=co-senior)
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"Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. "
Evolutionary applications 14.4: 877-892.
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"Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life"
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 114(5):1583-1589.
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"Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 9.1: 11-23.
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"APOE4 is associated with elevanted blood lipids and lower levels of innate immune biomarkers in a tropical Amerindian population. "
eLife 10:e68231. (*=co-corresponding author)
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"Energy compensation and adiposity in humans. "
Current Biology 31:1-8.
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"Connecting paleopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present. "
Evolving Health: Paleopathology and Evolutionary Medicine, Oxford University Press.
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"Very low prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation among Bolivian forager-farmers. "
Annals of Global Health 87(1):18.
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"Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society? "
eLife 10:e59437.
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"Human uniqueness? Life history diversity among small-scale societies and chimpanzees. "
PLoS ONE 16(2): e0239170. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239170
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"The indigenous South American Tsimane exhibit relatively modest decrease in brain volume with age despite high systemic inflammation. "
J. of Gerontology: Series A Biological Sciences glab138.
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"High prevalence of sternal foramina in indigenous Bolivians Compared to Midwest Americans and Indigenous North Americans. "
Anatomical Science International.
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"Was facial width-to-height ratio subject to sexual selection pressures? A life course approach. "
PLoS ONE 16(3): e0240284. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240284
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"Traditional and biomedical maternal and neonatal care practices in a rural indigenous population of the Bolivian Amazon. "
Global Public Health: 1-15. doi:10.1080/17441692.2021.1882531.
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"Daily energy expenditure through the human life course. "
Science 373:808-812.
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"Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions. "
International Journal of Paleopathology 33:209-219.
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"A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies. "
Cell Reports Medicine, 2(2), 100203.
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"He for she? Variation and exaggeration in men's support for women's empowerment in northern Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E27. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.23
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"Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 9.1 11-23.
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"Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. "
Evolutionary applications 14.4 877-892.
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"Elephant genome reveals insights into differences in disease susceptibility between species. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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"Using a multimethod life history approach to navigate the osteological paradox: A case study from Prehispanic Nasca, Peru. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24279
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"Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions. "
International Journal of Paleopathology.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1d2al6hTLQgXap
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"Human uniqueness? Life history diversity among small-scale societies and chimpanzees. "
PloS one 16.2 (2021): e0239170.
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"Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'. "
Social Sciences. 10: 161
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"Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration. "
Nature Human Behaviour. 5:668-671.
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" Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. "
Evolution and Human Behavior. 42: 165-175
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"“I have never seen something like that”: Discrepancies between lived experiences and the global health concept of child marriage in northern Tanzania. "
PLOS ONE. 16(4): e024920.
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"Sex-specific effects of harsh childhood environment on psychometrically assessed life history strategy: No mediation through developmental timing or embodied capital."
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 6(3), 307-333.
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"Lifetime cancer prevalence and life history traits in mammals. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 187-195.
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"Molecular biology and evolution of cancer: from discovery to action. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(2), 320-326.
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"Does placental invasiveness lead to higher rates of malignant transformation in mammals? "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 215-216.
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"Agent‐based modelling reveals strategies to reduce the fitness and metastatic potential of circulating tumour cell clusters. "
Evolutionary Applications.
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"Comparative Oncology: New Insights into an ancient disease. "
iScience 101373.
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"Improving cancer drug discovery by studying cancer across the tree of life. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution 37.1: 11-17.
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"Relationship of sanitation, water boiling, and mosquito nets to health biomarkers in a rural subsistence population. 2020. "
American Journal of Human Biology 32(1):e23356.
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"Life history of human foraging: cross-cultural and individual variation. "
Science Advances 6: eaax9070. + SUPPLEMENT
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"High social status is associated with child health among women, but not men, in a horticulturalist population. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192783. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Toward integration of the niche diversity hypothesis with other explanations for personality covariation. Reply to Međedović. "
Social Psychological and Personality Science 11(4):574-576.
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"Microbiota assembly, structure, and dynamics among Tsimane horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon. "
Nature Communications 11:3772.
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"The optimal timing of teaching and learning across the life course. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190500. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Voluntary collective isolation as a best response to COVID-19 for indigenous populations? A case study and protocol from the Bolivian Amazon. "
Lancet 395:1727-1734.
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"WEIRD bodies? Mismatch, medicine and the future of human health. "
Evolution & Human Behavior.
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"Ubiquitous personality-trait concepts in 13 diverse and isolated languages: a cluster-classification approach. "
European Journal of Personality 34:164-179.
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"Greater humility can help expand evolutionary social science. "
Evolution and Human Behavior 40:456-457.
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"C-reactive protein in traditional Melanesians on Kitava. "
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 20:524.
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"Market integration and urbanization have strong non-linear effects on metabolic health in the Turkana."
Science Advances 6:eabb1430.
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"Evidence for height and immune function trade-offs among pre-adolescents in a high pathogen population. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:86-99.
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"Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies. "
Evolution & Human Behavior 40:415-429.
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"Productivity loss associated with physical disability in a contemporary small-scale subsistence population. "
eLife 9:e62883.
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"Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:20190610.
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"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:114-128.
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"Rapidly declining core body temperature in a tropical human population. "
Science Advances 6: eabc6599.
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"Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women? "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173:463-479.
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"Financial opportunity costs and deaths among close kin are independently associated with reproductive timing in a contemporary high-income society. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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"When marriage is the best available option: perceptions of opportunity and risk in female adolescence in Tanzania. "
Global Public Health.
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"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "
PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346.
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"Old Friends and Friendly Fire: Potential Costs of Fetal Tolerance among Tropical Horticulturalists in a Hookworm-Endemic Environment"
American Journal of Human Biology. DOI:10.1002/ajhb.23337
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"Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox"
PNAS 201902406. +doi:10.1073/pnas.1902406116 + SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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