Professor Boone works on economic and ecological models of social hierarchy formation, social stratification, and costly signaling. He is also interested in the use of historical and archeological data in evolutionary research.

He currently directs archaeological research on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa, examining demography and Islamization in the Medieval Period.

Research interests include human population structure, human origins, cultural and genetic correspondence, distinguishing population continuity versus replacement using ancient DNA, and microevolution in small-scale populations.

Current research applies novel methods to understand the relationship between patterns of linguistic and genetic variation in Native Americans.

Professor Kaplan's current research interests include life history theory, disease, aging, and the evolution of human longevity. Other interests include the evolutionary ecology of human sociality, food sharing, parental investment, and sex roles.

He directs research with Michael Gurven (UCSB) among the Tsimane of Bolivia examining health, longevity, social support, and exchange. Click here to access the Tsimane project homepage.

Research interests include primate social behavior, evolution of human behavior, reproductive biology, parental investment, life history. Current research: reproductive behavior and parental investment among humans, especially in the Southwest.

My research focuses on the relationship between ecology, physiology and behavior. I use non-invasive monitoring techniques to investigate the physiological causes and consequences of social behavior in humans and non-human primates. Most of this research has been done with the Kanyawara chimpanzee community in Kibale National Park, Uganda, but I have also done field work with human foragers and pastoralists in Tanzania. I am particularly interested in what comparisons between chimpanzee and human behavior and physiology can tell us about human evolution.

I am interested in fossil ape and hominid paleoecology. My research incorporates dental microwear and isotopic analyses to reconstruct paleohabitats, climates, and dietary adaptations. Most of my research has focused on the interaction of climate, vegetation, and faunal changes in a 20 million year fossil sequence in Pakistan, particularly the roles that changing habitat and climate played in the extinction of the Miocene ape Sivapithecus. I also work with modern faunas, including a chimpanzee site in Uganda and Hadza foragers in Tanzania. My goal is to have a direct comparison between fossil and modern data to better interpret fossil ape and hominid adaptations.

Allen-Arave's research evaluates recent theories accounting for unreciprocated generosity. These reason that individuals perform altruistic acts that bestow reputations for generosity and attract favorable attention by being viewed as either: 1) a beneficent partner for exchanges of favors, 2) someone who commands access to resources and social prestige, or 3) some combination of these. Predictions are tested with data collected among Ache forger-horticulturalists and charitable donors in Albuquerque.

Research interests: socioecology and endocrine function

Breast cancer, cancer risk assessment, disease epidemiology, ethnic diversity and related health issues, early life growth and later life disease development.

I’m interested in using macroecology, scaling, and life history theory to investigate how humans impact their environments. I’ll look at properties of ecosystems or communities which human foragers may alter via predation on other mammals (prehistorically and among contemporary foragers). I’ll also look at scaling behavior in demographic variables of industrialized societies. Also, go here: Human Macroecology Blog.

Intrasexual alliances and competition, behavioral endocrinology. Current research: Alliances and stress-reduction within an organizational hierarchy in Colorado. Past work investigated social behavior in non-human primates.

Health, education, and cognitive development; women's reproductive strategies; public health; the Tsimane.

Intelligence and foraging behaviors among capuchins in Costa Rica.

Interests are ecology of population growth, urbanization and extractive industry in developing regions.

I am interested in understanding how household and market exchanges of macronutrients are shaped by the introduction of nontraditional technology among subsistence marine foragers residing in Lamalera, Indonesia. Click here to link to Mike Alvard's Lamalera cooperative hunting project homepage (Texas A&M).

Research interests include: the evolution of humor, sex differences in humor production and humor asociation, sexual selection for humor, stand-up comedy, costly signaling theory, cultural evolution, and sports.

My primary interests include cooperation and competition in social networks, dominance, and the evolution of leadership. I'm interested in integrating coercive and mutual-benefit scenarios of social hierarchy formation and seek to explain variation in social organization across societies. I am involved in the Tsimane' project in lowland Bolivia.

My current research aims to clarify the inverse relationship between early childhood disease exposures and the development of asthma within the Mixtec community living in Oaxaca, Tijuana and the United States. Past research has focused on child health in lowland Bolivia and Paraguay.

I am interested in human evolutionary ecology and genetics with respect to large-scale group cooperation, genome diversity, adaptation, phenotypic variation and the health implications of our evolutionary heritage. I am currently conducting research using Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) among Hispanic and Native American New Mexicans in Albuquerque.

Study of the trade-offs between sociosexual behavior and educational outcomes during adolescence, and the impact that both parental and extended familial investment patterns have in buffering or exacerbating these decisions. The research is informed by anthropological knowledge of family organization and pre-adult behaviors amongst non-industrialized populations, including small-scale traditional societies.

Human behavioral ecology.

Evolutionary approaches to the demographic transition to low fertility.

I am currently researching the effects of household composition on children's time allocation among Tsimane' forager-farmers of Bolivia. I am particularly interested in behavioral conflicts of interest between parents and their children, along with how subsistence-level intrafamilial interactions change as a function of access to local market economies.

I joined the Tsimane project in January 2003 and have spent a year doing fieldwork in lowland Bolivia. My research involves maternal-infant interactions and health outcomes, specifically infant immunodevelopment and the timing and nature of infant feeding with respect to local disease ecology. I am also interested in dietary shifts and health consequences in traditional communities undergoing economic transition. When not engaged in research activities I enjoy hula-hooping and making fresh fruit and vegetable juices.

Michael Alvard (1993)
Anthropology, Texas A&M
personal website

Kermyt G. Anderson (1999)
Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
personal website

Jack Baker (2006)
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico

John Bock (1995)
Anthropology, California State, Fullerton
personal website

Michelle Chino-Kelly (1997)
Environmental and Occupational Health Program, Anthropology, SUNY Stony Brook

Colleen Costin (1992)

Michelle Cristiani (2003)

Diane Crumley (2001)
Yolo County Resource Conservation District, Woodland, California

Lynne Fullerton (1998)
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico

Michael Gurven (2000)
Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
personal website

Paula Ivey (1993)
Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health

Sara Johnson (2001)
Anthropology, California State, Fullerton
personal website

Karen Kramer (1998)
Anthropology, SUNY-Stony Brook
personal website

Ginny Laadt (1997)
Division of Neonatology, University of New Mexico

Meredith Mahony-Muller (2005)

Garnett McMillan (2000)
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Tanya Mueller (2005)

Sharon Pochron (1999)
Anthropology, SUNY-Stony Brook
personal website

Lisa Rapaport (1997)

Francine Romero (1998)
Department of Health and Human Services, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico

Stacey Rucas (2004)
Anthropology, California Polytechnic, San Luis Obisbo
personal website

Abe Ruttenberg (2005)

Richard Sosis (1997)
Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
personal website

Troy Tucker (1998)
Anthropology, SUNY-Stony Brook

Robert Walker (2004)
Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver
personal website

David Waynford (1999)
Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, UK
personal website

Jeff Winking (2005)
NIA research project, The Human Life Course and Biodemography of Aging, Santa Fe Institute and University of New Mexico