Publications
Year (field_pub_date)

Kraft, T., Venkataraman, V., Wallace, I., Holowka, N., Raichlen, D., Wood, B., Gurven, M.*, Pontzer, H.* 2021. 

"The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies."

Science 374: eabf0130. (*=co-senior)

Research Themes:

Ujvari B, Dujon A, Aktipis A, Alix-Panabières C, Amend S, Boddy AM, Brown J, Capp JP, DeGregori J, Ewald P, Gatenby R, Gerlinger M, Giraudeau M, Hamede R, Hansen E, Kareva I, Maley CC, Marusyk A, McGranahan N, Metzger M, Nedelcu A, Noble R, Nunney L, Pienta K, Polyak K, Pujol P, Read A, Roche B, Sebens S, Solary E, Stanková K, Thomas F, Ewald HS. 2021. 

"Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer."

Evolutionary applications 14.4: 877-892.

Westerterp, K., Yamada, Y., Gurven, M., Speakman, J., IAEA DLW Database Consortium (82 authors). 2021. 

"Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life"

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 114(5):1583-1589.

Research Themes:

Gunst A, Sudén M, Korja R, Boddy AM, Kotler J, Paavonen EJ, Karlsson L, Karlsson H, Antfolk J. 2021. 

"Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment."

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 9.1: 11-23.

García, A.R., Finch, C.E., Gatz, M., Kraft, T.S., Cummings, D., Charifson, M., Eid Rodriguez, D., Buetow, K., Beheim, B., Allayee, H., Thomas, G.S., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M.*., Kaplan, H.*., Trumble, B.T*. 2021.

"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)

Research Themes:

Careau, V., Halsey, L., Gurven, M., Yoshida, T., Speakman, J., IAEA DLW Database Consortium (82 authors). 2021. 

"Energy compensation and adiposity in humans."

Current Biology 31:1-8.

Research Themes:

Wood, B. M., Harris, J. A., Raichlen, D. A., Pontzer, H., Sayre, K., Sancilio, A., ... & Jones, J. H. 2021. 

"Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers."

Nature Human Behaviour, 5(4), 436-446.  

Research Themes:

Marques C, Compton Z, Boddy AM. 2021. 

"Connecting paleopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present."

Evolving Health: Paleopathology and Evolutionary Medicine, Oxford University Press. 

Speakman, J. R., Yamada, Y., Sagayama, H., Berman, E. S., Ainslie, P. N., Andersen, L. F., ... & Wong, W. W. 2021. 

"A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies."

Cell Reports Medicine2(2), 100203.

Research Themes:

Pontzer, H., Yamada, Y., Gurven, M., Speakman, J., IAEA DLW Database Consortium (82 authors). 2021. 

"Daily energy expenditure through the human life course."

Science 373:808-812.

Research Themes:

Anderson, A.S., Sutherland, M.L., O’Donnell, L., Hill, E., Hunt, D.R., Blackwell, A.D., Gurven, M.D. 2021. 

"Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions."

International Journal of Paleopathology 33:209-219.

Research Themes:

Jaeggi, A., Blackwell, A.D., von Rueden, C., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2021. 

"Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society?"

eLife 10:e59437.

Research Themes:

Gans, B., Neunuebel, A., Umbarger, L., Trumble, B., Cummings, D., Wann, S.L., Lehenbauer, K., Mahadev, A., Eid Rodriguez, D., Michalik, D., Rowan, C., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Thomas, G., Thompson, R. 2021. 

"High prevalence of sternal foramina in indigenous Bolivians Compared to Midwest Americans and Indigenous North Americans."

Anatomical Science International

Research Themes:

Davison, R., Gurven, M. 2021. 

"Human uniqueness? Life history diversity among small-scale societies and chimpanzees."

PLoS ONE 16(2): e0239170. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239170

Research Themes:

Irimia, A., Chaudhari, N.N., Robles, D. Rostowsky, B., Maher, A., Chowdhury, N., Calvillo, M., Ngo, V., Gatz, M., Mack, W., Law, M., Sutherland, M.L., Sutherland, J.D., Rowan, C., Wann, L.S., Allam, A., Thompson, R., Michalik, D., Cummings, D., Seabright, E., Alami, S., Garcia, A., Hooper, P., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Gurven, M., Thomas, G., Finch, C., Kaplan, H. 2021. 

"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.

Research Themes:

Martin, M., Gurven, M. 2021. 

"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.

Research Themes:

Rowan, C., Eskander, M., Seabright, E., Eid Rodriguez, D., Cortez Linares, E., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Copajira Adrian, J., Cummings, D., Beheim, B., Tolstrup, K., Achrekar, A., Kraft, T., Michalik, D., Miyamoto, M., Allam, A., Wann, L.S., Narula, J., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Thompson, R., Thomas, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2021. 

"Very low prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation among Bolivian forager-farmers."

Annals of Global Health 87(1):18. 

Research Themes:

Hodges-Simeon, C., Albert, G., Richardson, G.B., McHale, T.S., Weinberg, S.M., Gurven, M., Gaulin, S. 2021. 

"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

Research Themes:

Lawson, D., Schaffnit, S., Kilgallen, J., Kumogola, Y., Galura, A., & Urassa, M. 2021. 

"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

Tollis M, Ferris E, Campbell M, Harris V, Rupp S, Harrison T, Kiso WK, Schmitt D, Aktipis A, Maley C, Boddy AM, Yandell M, Sciffman JD, Abegglen LM. 2021. 

"Elephant genome reveals insights into differences in disease susceptibility between species."

Molecular Biology and Evolution