Publications
Year (field_pub_date)

Blackwell, AD. 2017.

"Expanding the insurance hypothesis of obesity with physiological cues (Commentary on Nettle, Andrews, and Bateson, 'Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis')."

Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40, e108 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16001333.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lawson DW, Schaffnit SB, Hassan A, Ngadaya E, Ngowi B, Mfinanga SGM, James S, Borgerhoff Mulder M. 2017. 

"Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty and poor child health in northern Tanzania."

American Journal of Human Biology 29 e22938.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work

Blackwell, AD, Urlacher, SS, Beheim, B, von Rueden, C, Jaeggi, A, Stieglitz, J, Tumble, BC, Gurven, MD, Kaplan, H. 2017.

"Growth references for Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon."

American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 162(3) 441-461. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23128.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2017.

"Horticultural activity predicts later localized limb status in a contemporary preindustrial population."

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163(3):425-436. + SUPPLEMENT

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Jaeggi, A., Kramer, K., Hames, R., Kiely, E., Gomes, C.€ , Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2017.

"Human grooming in comparative perspective: using phylogenetic analyses to test hygienic, thermoregulatory and social functions among six small-scale societies."

American Journal of Physical.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lawson DW, Núñez-de la Mora A, Cooper GD, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Sear R. 2017. 

"Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone levels in rural Gambian men."

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3:221-240.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work Families, Gender, and Work

Gurven, M., Gomes, C. 2017. 

"Mortality, senescence and life span. In: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution."

(Edited by M. Muller, R. Wrangham, D. Pilbeam). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press. Pp. 181-216.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Garcia, AR, Blackwell, AD. 2017.

"The physiological constellation of deprivation: immunological strategies and health outcomes (Commentary on: Pepper and Nettle, 'The Behavioural Constellation of Deprivation: Causes and Consequences')."

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Gurven, M, Kaplan, H, Stieglitz, J, Trumble, B, Blackwell, AD, Beheim, B, Hooper, P. 2017.

"The Tsimane Health and Life History Project (THLHP): Integrating anthropology and biomedicine. Evolutionary Anthropology."

26(2) 54-73. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21515.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Sobolewski, M., Weiss, B., Martin, M., Gurven, M., Barrett, E. 2017.

"Toxicoanthropology: phthalate exposure in relation to market access in a remote forager-horticultural population."

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 220(5):799-809.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lukaszewski, A., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Schmitt, D. 2017, in press.

"What explains personality covariation? A test of the socioecological complexity hypothesis."

Social Psychological and Personality Science. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Hopfensitz, A. 2017. 

"Why household inefficiency? An experimental approach to assess spousal resource distribution preferences in a subsistence population undergoing socioeconomic change."

Evolution and Human Behavior 38(1):71-81. + SUPPLEMENT

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work

Garcia Aand Weigler E. 2017.

"Why We Yearn for the Simple Life. "The Sexual Allure of Simplicity.""

Published online: http://www.sapiens.org/debate/sex-simplicity/ 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment

Horvath, S., Gurven, M., Levine, M.E., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Allayee, H., Ritz, B.R., Chen, B., Lu, A., Rickabaugh, T.M., Jamieson, B.D., Sun, D., Li, S., Chen, W., Quintana-Murci, L., Fagny, M., Kobor, M.S., Tsao, P.S., Reiner, A.P., Edlefsen, K.L., Absher, D., Assimes, T.L. 2016.

"An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease."

Genome Biology 17:171. DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-1030-0.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble, B.C., Blackwell, A., Stieglitz, J., Emery Thompson, M., Maldonado Suarez, I., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016.

"Associations between men's testosterone and immune function in a pathogenically stressed forager-horticultural population."

American Journal of Physical Anthropology..

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Madimenos, F., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016. 

"Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound indicates reduced bone mineral status among physically active adult forager-horticulturalists."

J. of Bone and Mineral Research 31(3): 663-671. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Social Determinants of Inequality

Gurven, M., Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A.D., Michalik, D.E., Finch, C.E., Kaplan, H. 2016

"Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in evolutionary perspective: a critical role for helminths?"

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 338-357. doi:10.1093/emph/eow028.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Martin, M., Garcia, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016.

"Conflict or congruence? Maternal and infant-centric factors associated with shorter exclusive breastfeeding durations among the Tsimane."

Social Science & Medicine 170:9-16.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Gurven, M., Costa, M., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B., Eid Rodriguez, D., Hooper, P.L., Kaplan, H. 2016. 

"Costs of reproduction and maternal depletion in a high fertility and mortality population."

Nature Scientific Reports 6:30056.  

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution Families, Gender, and Work

Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Hanson, K.N., Samore, T., Gurven, M., Gaulin, S.J.C. 2016. 

"Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is not associated with adolescent testosterone levels."

PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153083. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153083. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution