Research
Publications
"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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"Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists"
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.
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"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
Management Science, 2020, 66(5): 1783-2290. (Also NBER Working Paper #23188)
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"Who Chooses Commitment? Evidence and Welfare Implications?"
Review of Economic Studies.
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"Teaching Sociology of Gender During Covid-19: Lessons from Contexts Magazine."
Contexts, Sociology for the Public, Blog. April 15, 2021.
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"Energy compensation and adiposity in humans. "
Current Biology 31:1-8.
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"Benefits of megastudies for testing behavioural interventions"
392-393
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"Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers. "
Nature Human Behaviour, 5(4), 436-446.
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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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"The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering."
Gender & Society 35(3): 395-421.
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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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"PhDLand use impacts on parasitic infection: a cross-sectional epidemiological study on the role of irrigated agriculture in schistosome infection in a dammed landscape. "
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 10:1: 1-10
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"Rethinking Resilient Agriculture: From Climate-Smart Agriculture to Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture. "
Journal of Cleaner Production.
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"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of Drought Monitoring. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 3. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 94.
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"Agricultural Innovations to Reduce the Health Impacts of Dams. "
Sustainability 13.4 (2021): 1869.
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"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of UNCCD Strategic Objective (SO): To Improve Living Conditions of Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 2. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 76.
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"Perceptions and application of the ecosystem services approach among Pacific Northwest National Forest managers. "
Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1259.
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"Effective strategies to promote HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men: evidence from a mathematical model. "
Epidemics 37:100518.
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"The Development of STEM Efficacy and Identity among Mexican-Origin Youth across Latino/a Destinations. "
Developmental Psychology.
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"Understanding the Health Landscapes where Latinx Immigrants Establish Residence in the United States.”"
Health Affairs. 40(7): 1108-1116.
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"Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity. "
Handbook of Cities and Networks, edited by Z. Neal and C. Rozenblat, 331-349 (Edward Elgar Publishers).
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"Coastal vulnerability under extreme weather. "
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-020-09357-0).
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"Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation. "
Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities, edited by Poonam Sharma, 299-314 (Springer) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71945-6).
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"Gender, family separation, and negative emotional well-being among recent Mexican migrants"
The Journal of Marriage and Family
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"Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics? "
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111(5).
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"Small farmer land use and deforestation in tropical forest frontiers: Implications for conservation and sustainable livelihoods. "
Land 10(11), 1113
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"Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China. "
Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy
53 (1), 452-469.
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"Gender and Social Movements. "
Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, edited by Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press.
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"Elephant genome reveals insights into differences in disease susceptibility between species. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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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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"Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process:Evidence from China. "
Journal of Development Economics.
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"Experimental Methods: Eliciting Beliefs. "
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 189, September, 2021, 234-256.
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"A call for epidemic modeling to examine historical and structural drivers of racial disparities in infectious disease. "
Social Science & Medicine 276:113833. (PMCID: PMC8168281)
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"Traditional Asians? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Policy Attitudes in the United States. "
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7:130–53. Special issue on Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda.
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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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"Data and HIT Systems in Primary Care Settings: an Analysis of Perceptions and Use."
Journal of Health Organization and Management. Vol. 35 No.4, pp.425-442, PMID 33354961. https://doi. org/10.1108/JHOM-03-2020-0071
"He for She? Variation and exaggeration in men’s support for women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3: E27.
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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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"Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration. "
Nature Human Behaviour. 5:668-671.
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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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"Are Men Animals? How modern masculinity sells men short. Men and Masculinities. "
Book Review.
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"Holiday, Just One Day Out of Life: Birth Timing and Post-natal Outcomes. "
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (NBER Working Paper #27346).
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"Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia. "
Global Environmental Change, 71, 102414.
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"Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene."
Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies, edited by James J. Dean and Nancy L. Fischer. New York/Routledge.
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"Consideraciones metodólogicas para el conteo de la población afromexicana en el Censo 2020"
Coyuntura Demográfica, 14, 49-56.
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"Anticipated and experienced ethnic/racial discrimination and sleep: A longitudinal study. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/014616722C928859.
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"Mixed signals: The unintended effects of diversity initiatives. "
Social Issues and Policy Review, 14. (1), 152-181. doi: 10.1111/sipr.12059.
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"Cardiovascular, behavioral and psychological responses to organizational prodiversity messages among racial/ethnic minorities. "
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1-21. doi: 10.1177/1368430220944222.
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"Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk."
American Sociological Review.
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"The countervailing effects of weight stigma on weight-loss motivation and perceived capacity for weight control. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/0146167220903184.
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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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"Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage "
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. October 2020,178: 424-448.
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"Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder a Disorder? In the Context of a Disaster, Not Really."
British Sociological Society, Everyday Society Blog. April 14, 2020.
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"Courage is beautiful But PPE Is Better: White Supremacy, Racial Capitalism, and Covid-19."
Contexts, Sociology for the Public, Blog. June 2020.
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"Ageing and physical function in East African foragers and pastoralists. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1811), 20190608.
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"The Experimental Identification of Starch Spherulites Recovered from Nixtamalized Maize Residue."
Journal of Archaeological Science 113:105056. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2019.105056.
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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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"Prepaid electricity metering in South Africa. "
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2): 134-168.
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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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"Technology adoption under uncertainty: Take-up and subsequent investment in Zambia. "
Appendix Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(3): 617-632.
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.45 (2020): 28515-28524.
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"What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area communities to relocate? China's ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. "
Science of the Total Environment. 138364
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"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaa022
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