strength and fighting ability from the body (2009)
Aaron Sell, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Daniel Sznycer, Christopher Von Rueden, Michael Gurven
adaptations for the visual assessment of
The trade-off between number and size of offspring in humans and other primates (2008)
Walker, Robert S., Gurven, Michael, Burger, Oskar, Hamilton, Marcus J.
Top-down and bottom-up research in biodemography (2008)
Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven
The most efficient way to make scientific progress in biodemography is to encourage bi-directional exchange between 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' research. This will entail exchange along the continuum...
Supa, Alfredo Zelada, Kaplan, Hillard, Gurven, Michael
This paper examines regional and temporal trends in mortality patterns among the Tsimane, a population of small-scale forager-horticulturalists in lowland Bolivia. We compare age-specific mortality...
Walker, Robert, Gurven, Michael, Hill, Kim, Migliano, Andrea, Chagnon, Napoleon, De Souza, Roberta, ...
This study investigates variation in body growth (cross-sectional height and weight velocity) among a sample of 22 small-scale societies. Considerable variation in growth exists among...
Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin, Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, ...
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This...
This paper reports the results of the Ultimatum Game (UG), Dictator Game (DG) and Public Goods Game (PGG) played among the Tsimane, a group of forager-horticulturalists living in the Bolivian Amazon....
Genetic traces of ancient demography
Harpending, Henry C., Batzer, Mark A., Gurven, Michael, Jorde, Lynn B., Rogers, Alan R., Sherry, Stephen T.
Patterns of gene differences among humans contain information about the demographic history of our species. Haploid loci like mitochondrial DNA and the nonrecombining part of the Y chromosome show a...
Genetic traces of ancient demography
Harpending, Henry C., Batzer, Mark A., Gurven, Michael, Jorde, Lynn B., Rogers, Alan R., Sherry, Stephen T.
Patterns of gene differences among humans contain information about the demographic history of our species. Haploid loci like mitochondrial DNA and the nonrecombining part of the Y chromosome show a...
Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, ...
Experimental behavioral scientists have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in over a hundred experiments from around the world. Prior research...
This paper reports the results of the Ultimatum Game (UG), Dictator Game (DG) and Public Goods Game (PGG) played among the Tsimane, a group of forager-horticulturalists living in the Bolivian Amazon....
Energetic demand of multiple dependents and the evolution of slow human growth
Gurven, Michael, Walker, Robert
This study investigates the consequences of the human foraging niche and multiple dependent offspring on the optimal growth trajectory of humans. We test the hypothesis that the human pattern of slow...
Why do men marry and why do they stray?
Winking, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Hillard, Gurven, Michael, Rucas, Stacey
Humans are quite unusual compared to other great apes in that reproduction typically takes place within long-term, iteroparous pairings—social arrangements that have been culturally reified as the...
Longevity Among Hunter- Gatherers: A Cross-Cultural Examination
Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan
Post-reproductive longevity is a robust feature of human life and not only a recent phenomenon caused by improvements in sanitation, public health, and medical advances. We argue for an adaptive life...
Culture sometimes matters: Intra-cultural variation in pro-social behavior among Tsimane Amerindians
Top-down and bottom-up research in biodemography
Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven
The most efficient way to make scientific progress in biodemography is to encourage bi-directional exchange between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ research. This will entail exchange along the...
More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies
Marlowe, Frank W, Berbesque, J. Colette, Barr, Abigail, Barrett, Clark, Bolyanatz, Alexander, Cardenas, Juan Camilo, ...
If individuals will cooperate with cooperators, and punish non-cooperators even at a cost to themselves, then this strong reciprocity could minimize the cheating that undermines cooperation. Based...
The trade-off between number and size of offspring in humans and other primates
Walker, Robert S, Gurven, Michael, Burger, Oskar, Hamilton, Marcus J
Life-history theory posits a fundamental trade-off between number and size of offspring that structures the variability in parental investment across and within species. We investigate this...
Homo Aequalis: A Cross-Society Experimental Analysis of Three Bargaining Games
Abigail Barr, Chris Wallace, Jean Ensminger, Joseph Henrich, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, ...
Data from three bargaining games - the Dictator Game, the Ultimatum Game, and the Third-Party Punishment Game - played in 15 societies are presented. The societies range from US undergraduates to...