Publications
Year (field_pub_date)

Jack, B.K. and G. Smith. 2020.

"Prepaid electricity metering in South Africa."

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2): 134-168.​

Research Themes:
Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment

Oliva, P., B.K. Jack, S. Bell, C. Severen and E. Walker. 2020. 

"Technology adoption under uncertainty: Take-up and subsequent investment in Zambia."

Appendix Review of Economics and Statistics​, 102(3): 617-632.

Research Themes:
Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment

Alami, S.*, von Rueden, C., Seabright, E.*, Kraft, T.S.†, Blackwell, A.D., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2020. 

"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

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Koster, J., McElreath, R., Hill, K., Yu, D., Shepard, G., van Vliet, N., Gurven, M., Trumble, B., Bliege Bird, R., Bird, D., Codding, B., Coad, L., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Winterhalder, B., Lupo, K., Schmitt, D., Sillitoe, P., Franzen, M., Alvard, M., Venkataraman, V., Kraft, T., Endicott, K., Beckerman, S., Marks, S., Headland, T., Pangau-Adam, M., Siren, A., Kramer, K., Greaves, R., Reyes-Garcia, V., Gueze, M., Duda, R., Fernandez-Llamazares, A., Gallois, S., Napitupulu, L., Ellen, R., Ziker, J., Nielsen, M., Ready, E., Healy, C., Ross, C. 2020. 

"Life history of human foraging: cross-cultural and individual variation."

Science Advances 6: eaax9070. + SUPPLEMENT

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Sprockett, D.D., Martin, M., Costello, E.K., Burns, A., Holmes, S.P., Gurven, M., Relman, D. 2020. 

"Microbiota assembly, structure, and dynamics among Tsimane horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon."

Nature Communications 11:3772.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Dinkel, K., Costa, M., Kraft, T., Stieglitz, J., Cummings, D., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Trumble, B. 2020.

"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.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Gurven, M., Davison, R.†, Kraft, T.†. 2020. 

"The optimal timing of teaching and learning across the life course."

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190500. + SUPPLEMENT

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lukaszewski, A., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Smaldino, P. 2020. 

"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.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Wood, J.K., Saucier, G., Gurven, M., Goldberg, L. 2020. 

"Ubiquitous personality-trait concepts in 13 diverse and isolated languages: a cluster-classification approach."

European Journal of Personality 34:164-179.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Kaplan, H., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Mendez, R., Gutierrez Cayuba, M., Maito Moye, L., Alami, S.*, Kraft, T.†, Quispe Gutierrez, R., Copajira Adrian, J., Thompson, R., Thomas, G., Michalik, D., Eid Rodriguez, D., Gurven, M. 2020. 

"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.   

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Gurven, M., Lieberman, D. 2020. 

"WEIRD bodies? Mismatch, medicine and the future of human health."

Evolution & Human Behavior.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Carrera-Bastos, P., Fontes-Villalba, M., Gurven, M., Muskiet, F.A.J., Åkerfeldt, T., Lindblad, U., Råstam, L., Frostegård, J., Shapira, Y., Shoenfeld, Y., Granfeldt, Y., Sundquist, K., Jönsson, T. 2020. 

"C-reactive protein in traditional Melanesians on Kitava."

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 20:524.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

García, A.R., Trumble, B., Kraft, T., Murillo, S., Marquez, M., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D. 2020. 

"Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women?"

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173:463-479.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

García, A.R., Blackwell, A.D., Trumble, B., Cortez Linares, E., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2020. 

"Evidence for height and immune function trade-offs among pre-adolescents in a high pathogen population."

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:86-99.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Gurven, M. 2020. 

"Greater humility can help expand evolutionary social science."

Evolution and Human Behavior 40:456-457. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Hové, C., Trumble, B., Anderson, A., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A. 2020. 

"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations."

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:114-128.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Curtin, C.M., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Crittenden, A., Fessler, D.M., Fitzpatrick, S., Gurven, M., Kanovsky, M., Kushnick, G., Laurence, S., Pisor, A., Scelza, B., Stich, S., von Rueden, C., Zhao, W., Henrich, J. 2020. 

"Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies."

Evolution & Human Behavior 40:415-429.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Lea, A., Martins, D., Kamau, J., Gurven, M., Ayroles, J.F. 2020. 

"Market integration and urbanization have strong non-linear effects on metabolic health in the Turkana."

Science Advances 6:eabb1430.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Kraft, T., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Garcia, A., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M. 2020. 

"Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population."

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:20190610. 

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2020. 

"Productivity loss associated with physical disability in a contemporary small-scale subsistence population."

eLife 9:e62883.

Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution