Research

Family Demography Publications

Kraft, T, Seabright, E., Alami, S., Hooper, P., Beheim, B., Davis, H., Garcia, A., Cummings, D., Eid Rodriguez, D., Gutierrez Cayuba, M., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2023.

"Metapopulation dynamics of infectious disease transmission in a small-scale Amazonian society. "

PLoS Biology 21(8): e3002108.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Kapsetaki SE, Fortunato A, Compton Z, Rupp SM, Nour Z, Riggs-Davis S, Stephenson D, Duke EG, Boddy AM, Harrison T M, Maley CC, Aktipis A. 2023.

"Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life? "

PloS one 18.6(e0287901.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

AbdulJabbar K, Castillo SP, Hughes K, Davidson H, Boddy AM, Abegglen LM, Murchison EP, Graham TA, Spiro S, Palmieri C, Yuan Y. 2023.

"Bridging clinic and wildlife care with AI-powered pan-species computational pathology. "

Nature Communications. 14.1: 2408.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Baraka, J., Lawson, D. W., Schaffnit, S. B., Wamoyi, J., & Urassa, M. 2023.

"Why marry early? Parental influence, agency and gendered conflict in Tanzanian marriages. "

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e49

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Stieglitz, J., Buoro, Y., Beheim, B., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2023.

" Labour’s pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear, and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population. "

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290:20222497.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble, B., Charifson, M., Kraft, T., Garcia, A.R.*, Cummings, D.K., Hooper, P., Lea, A., Eid Rodriguez, D., Koebele, S., Buetow, K., Beheim, B., Minocher, R., Gutierrez, M., Thomas, G., Gatz, M., Stieglitz, J., Finch, C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2023.

"Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with higher fecundity in a natural fertility population. "

Science Advances 9:eade979.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Schniter, E., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2023.

". Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers. "

Evolution and Human Behavior.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Speakman, J., de Jong, J.,…, Gurven, M., …, Wong, W. 2023.

"Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure. "

Nature Metabolism 5:579-588.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Trumble, B.C., Pontzer, H., Stieglitz, J., Cummings, D.K., Wood, B., Emery Thompson, M., Raichlen, D., Beheim, B., Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2023.

"Energetic costs of testosterone in two subsistence populatons. "

American Journal of Human Biology e23949.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Thompson, R., Thomas, G., Neunuebel, A., Mahadev, A., Trumble, B.C., Seabright, E., Cummings, D., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. 2023.

"Atherosclerosis in indigenous Tsimane: a contemporary perspective. "

Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease. Ed. M. Binder, C.A. Roberts, D. Antoine. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 246-257.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Ross, C., Hooper, P., Smith, J., …, Gurven, M., …Borgerhoff-Mulder, M. 2023.

"Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. "

PNAS 120(22):e2220124120.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Kaplan, H., Hooper, P., Gatz, M., Mack, W., Law, M., Chui, H., Sutherland, L., Sutherland, J., Rowan, C., Wann, S., Allam, A., Thompson, R., Michalik, D., Lombardi, G., Miyamoto, M., Eid Rodriguez, D., Copajira, J., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Beheim, B., Cummings, D., Seabright, E., Alami, S., García, A., Buetow, K., Thomas, G., Finch, C., Stieglitz, J. Trumble, B., Gurven, M., Irimia, A. 2023.

"Brain volume, energy balance and cardiovascular health in two non-industrial South American populations. "

PNAS 120(13):e2205448120.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Delton, A.W., Jaeggi, A.V., Lim, J., Sznycer, D., Gurven, M., Robertson, T.E., Sugiyama, L., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. 2023.

"Cognitive foundations for helping and harming others: making welfare tradeoffs in industrialized and small-scale societies. "

Evolution and Human Behavior.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Boddy AM. 2022.

"The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research. "

European Journal of Epidemiology. 1-6.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Yamada, Y., Zhang, X.,…, Gurven, M.,…, Speakman, J., 2022.

"Doubly Labeled Water Database Consortium. Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors. "

Science 378(6622):909-915.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Kraft, T., Cummings, D., Venkataraman, V., Alami, S., Beheim, B., Hooper, P., Seabright, E., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Endicott, K., Endicott, K., Gurven, M. 2022.

"Female cooperative labor networks in hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists"

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20210431.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Vinjamuri, A., Davis, J., Totten, S.M., Wu, L.D., Klein, L.D., Martin, M. Quinn, E.A., Scelza, B., Breakey, A., Gurven, M., Jasienska, G., Kaplan, H., Valeggia, C., Hinde, K., Smilowitz, J.T., Zivkovic, A.M., Barratt, M.J., Gordon, J.I., Underwood, M.A., German, J.B., Lebrilla, C.B. 2022.

" Human milk oligosaccharide compositions illustrate global variations in early nutrition. "

Journal of Nutrition 152(5):1239-1253.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Lea, A., Garcia, A., Arevalo, J., Ayroles, J., Buetow, K., Cole, S.W., Eid Rodriguez, D., Gutierrez Cayuba, M., Highland, H., Kraft, T., North, K.E., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Trumble, B., Gurven, M.D. 2022.

"Natural selection of immune and metabolic genes associated with health in two lowland Bolivian populations. "

PNAS 120(1): e2207544120.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Seabright, E., Alami, S., Kraft, T.S., Davis, H., Hooper, P., Caldwell, A., Mulville, S., McAllister, L., von Rueden, C., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. 2022.

"Repercussions of post-marital residence on mothers’ social support networks among Tsimane forager-farmers. "

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20210442.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Frogge, H., Jones, R. A., Angedakin, S., Busobozi, R., Kabagambe, P., Angwela, F. O., Thompson González, N., & Brown, M. 2022.

"Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda. "

Behaviour, 159(10), 961-987. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10160

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Boddy AM, Rupp S, Yu Z, Hanson H, Aktipis A, Smith K. 2022. In press.

"Early life adversity, reproductive history, and breast cancer risk. "

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Gatz, M., Mack, W., Chui, H., Law, M., Barisano, G., Sutherland, M.L., Sutherland, J.D., Eid Rodriguez, D., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Bani Cuata, J., Borenstein, A., Walters, E., Irimia, A., Rowan, C., Wann, L.S., Allam, A., Thompson, R., Miyamoto, M., Michalik, D., Cummings, D., Seabright, E., Garcia, A., Hooper, P., Kraft, T., Finch, C., Thomas, G., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. 2022.

"Prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in indigenous Bolivian forager-horticulturalists. "

Alzheimers & Dementia.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Kilgallen JA, Schaffnit SB, Kumogola Y, Galura A, Urassa M. Lawson DW. (2022).

"Positive correlation between women’s status and intimate partner violence suggests violence backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania. "

Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Davison, R., & Gurven, M. 2022.

"The importance of elders: Extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(28), e2200073119.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Abegglen LM, Harrison TM, Moresco A, Fowles JS, Troan BV, Kiso WK, Schmitt D, Boddy AM, Schiffman JD. 2022. In press.

"Of elephants and other mammals: A comparative review of reproductive tumors and potential impact on conservation. "

Animals. 2022 In Press.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Brown, M., Steinitz, R., & Emery Thompson, M. (2022).

"Wins and losses in intergroup conflicts reflect energy balance in red-tailed monkeys."

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1851), 20210152. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0152

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Davis, H., Gurven, M., Cashdan, E. 2022.

"Navigational experience and the preservation of spatial abilities into old age among a tropical forager-farmer population. "

Topics in Cognitive Science.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Halsey, L.H., Careau, V., Gurven, M., Speakman, J.R. 2022.

"Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females. "

J of Human Evolution.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Dujon AM, Boutry J, Tissot S, Lemaitre JF, Boddy AM, Gerard A, Alvergne A, Arnal A, Vincze O, Nicolas D, Giraudeau M, Telonis-Scott M, Schultz A, Pujol P, Biro P, Beckmann C, Hamede R, Roche B, Ujvari B, Thomas F. 2022.

"Cancer susceptibility as a cost of reproduction and contributor to life history evolution. "

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10 (2022): 861103.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Davison, R., Gurven, M. 2022.

"The importance of elders: extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "

PNAS 119(28):e2200073119.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Natterson-Horowitz B, Boddy AM, Zimmerman, D. 2022.

"Female Health Across the Tree of Life: Insights at the Intersection of Women's Health, One Health and Planetary Health. "

PNAS nexus 1.2 (2022): pgac044.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Wallace, I.J., Kraft, T.S., Venkataraman, V.V., Davis, H.E., Holowka, N.B., Harris, A.R., Lieberman, D.E., Gurven, M. 2022.

"Cultural variation in running techniques among non-industrial societies. "

Evolutionary Human Sciences 4:e14.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Holowka, N.B., Kraft, T.S., Wallace, I.J., Gurven, M., Venkataraman, V. 2022.

"Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among the Amazonian Tsimane. "

Evolutionary Human Sciences.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Vincze O, Colchero F, Lemaitre JF, Conde D, Pavard S, Bieuville M, Urrutia AO, Ujvari B, Boddy AM, Maley CC, Thomas F, Giraudeau M. 2022.

"Cancer risk across mammals. Nature."

601.7892 263-267

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Zhang, X., Yamada, Y., Gurven, M., IAEA DLW database consortium. 2022.

"Human total, basal and activity energy expenditures are independent of ambient environmental temperature. "

iScience 25:104682.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Durkee, P.K., Lukaszewski, A.W., von Rueden, C.R., Gurven, M.D., Buss, D.M., Tucker-Drob, E.M. 2022.

"Niche diversity predicts personality structure across 115 nations. "

Psychological Science 33(2):285-298.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Rimbach, R., Yamada, Y., Gurven, M. 2022.

"IAEA DLW Database Consortium. Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition. "

Nature Communications 13:99.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Lea, A.J., Waigwa, C., Muhoya, B., Lotukoi, F., Peng, J., Henry, L.P., Abhyankar, V., Kamau, J., Martins, D., Gurven, M., Ayroles, J.F. 2021.

"Socioeconomic status effects on health vary between rural and urban Turkana. "

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:406-419, eoab39. [“Editor’s choice” article]

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Schneider-Crease, I., Blackwell, A.D., Kraft, T.S., Emery Thompson, M., Maldonado Suarez, I., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Snyder-Mackler, N., Gurven, M.*, Kaplan, H.*, Trumble, B*. 2021.

"Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane hunter-horticulturalists. "

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:349-359, eoab035. (*=co-senior author).

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

LO O’Donnell, EC Hill, AS Anderson, HJH Edgar. 2021.

"A biological approach to adult sex differences in skeletal indicators of childhood stress. "

American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24424

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health

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 reveal accelerated evolution in mechanisms underlying disease defenses. "

Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38.9 3606-3620.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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 Medicine, 2(2), 100203.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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:

Biodemography and Evolution

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

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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

Evolutionary applications 14.4 877-892.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

WC McCool, AS Anderson, DJ Kennett. 2021.

"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

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

AS Anderson, ML Sutherland, LO O’Donnell, EC Hill, DR Hunt, AD Blackwell, MD Gurven. 2021.

"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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Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Davison, R., and M. Gurven. 2021.

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

PloS one 16.2 (2021): e0239170.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Urassa M, Lawson DW, Wamoyi J, Gurmu E, Gibson MA, Madhivanan P, Placek C. 2021.

"Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration. "

Nature Human Behaviour. 5:668-671.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Lawson DW, Schaffnit SB, Hassan A, & Urassa M. 2021.

" Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. "

Evolution and Human Behavior. 42: 165-175

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography

Schaffnit SB, Urassa M, Wamoyi J, Dardoumpa M, & Lawson DW. 2021.

"“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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography

Schaffnit SB & Lawson DW. 2021.

"Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'. "

Social Sciences. 10: 161

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography

Chua, K. J., Lukaszewski, A. W., & Manson, J. 2020.

"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.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Boddy AM, Abegglen LM, Schiffman JD, Maley CC, Witte C. 2020.

"Does placental invasiveness lead to higher rates of malignant transformation in mammals? "

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 215-216.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Campenni M, May AN, Boddy AM, Harris V, Nedelcu AM. 2020.

"Agent‐based modelling reveals strategies to reduce the fitness and metastatic potential of circulating tumour cell clusters. "

Evolutionary Applications.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Boddy AM, Harrison T, Abegglen LM. 2020.

"Comparative Oncology: New Insights into an ancient disease. "

iScience 101373.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Somarelli JA, Boddy AM, Gardner H, Bartholf DeWitt S, Tuyohy J, Megquier K, Sheth MU, Hsu D, Thorne JL, Eward WC. 2020.

"Improving cancer drug discovery by studying cancer across the tree of life. "

Molecular Biology and Evolution 37.1: 11-17.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Boddy AM, Abegglen LM, Pessier AP, Schiffman JD, Maley C, Witte C. 2020.

"Lifetime cancer prevalence and life history traits in mammals. "

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 187-195.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Somarelli JA, Gardner H, Cannataro VL, Gunady EF, Boddy AM, Johnson NA, Fisk JN, Gaffney SG, Chuang JH, Li S, Ciccarelli FD. 2020.

"Molecular biology and evolution of cancer: from discovery to action. "

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(2), 320-326.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gurven, M., Kraft, T., Alami, S., Copajira Adrian, J., Cortez Linares, E., Cummings, D., Eid Rodriguez, D., Hooper, P., Jaeggi, A., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Maldonado Suarez, I., Seabright, E., Kapan, H., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B. 2020.

"Rapidly declining core body temperature in a tropical human population. "

Science Advances 6: eabc6599.

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

Gurven, M. 2020.

"Greater humility can help expand evolutionary social science. "

Evolution and Human Behavior 40:456-457.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution

Berg V, Lawson DW, Rotkirch A. 2020.

"Financial opportunity costs and deaths among close kin are independently associated with reproductive timing in a contemporary high-income society. "

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography

Lawson DW, Lynes R, Morris A & Schaffnit SB. 2020.

"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "

PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography

Schaffnit SB, Wamoyi J, Urassa M, Dardoumpa M, & Lawson DW. 2020.

"When marriage is the best available option: perceptions of opportunity and risk in female adolescence in Tanzania. "

Global Public Health.

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