Jane B. Lancaster
Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1985
Convener of the Human Evolutionary Ecology sub field, and Editor, Human Nature: An interdisciplinary biosocial journal.

Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Behavioral Ecology and Biology of Sex Roles (361/661)
Great Apes: Mind and Behavior (362/662)
Primate Social Behavior (363/563)
Observing Primate Behavior (369/564)
Human Reproductive Ecology and Biology (562).

Education
Wellesley College, BA, Cum laude 1958
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, PhD 1967
Dissertation: “Primate Communication Systems and the Emergence of Human Language”

Fieldwork
Zambia, Africa
Albuquerque, NM

Selected Publications
(with H. Kaplan), Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life history, diet and the mind. In: Steven W. Gantestad and Jeffry A. Simpson, (eds.), The Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY, Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 111120.

(with Hillard S. Kaplan and Michael Gurven) Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex In: Steven W. Gantestad and Jeffry A. Simpson, (eds.), The Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY, Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 269279.

(with H. Kaplan and A. Robson), “Embodied Capital and the Evolutionary Economics of the Human Life Span,” In: JR Carey and S. Tuljapurkar, (eds.) Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives. Population and Development Review, 29:152-182 (supplement), The New York, The Population Council, 2003

(with H. Kaplan) “An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment,” In: KW Wachter and RA Bulatao, (eds.) Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective. Washington, The National Academies Press, 2003, pp. 170-223.

(with H. Kaplan, W. T. Tucker & K. G. Anderson) “An evolutionary approach to below replacement fertility,” American Journal of Human Biology 14:233-256, Special Issue on Evolutionary Approaches to Population, 2002.

(with H. Kaplan, K. Hill, A. M. Hurtado) “A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity,” Evolutionary Anthropology 9(4):156-185, 2000

(with H. Kaplan, K. Hill and A. M. Hurtado) “The Evolution of Life History, Intelligence, and Diet Among Chimpanzees and Human Foragers,” Perspectives in Ethnology: Evolution, Culture and Behavior, F. Tonneau and N. S. Thompson, Eds. vol. 13:47-72. Plenum, NY, 2000.

(with H. Kaplan) “The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility,” Evolutionary Biology and Human Behavior: 20 years later. L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and W. Irons, Eds. Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, NY. Pp. 283-322, 2000.

(with H. Kaplan and K. G. Anderson), “Human Parental Investment and Fertility: The life histories of men in Albuquerque,” Men In Families. A. Booth and A. Crouter, Eds. Erlbaum Publishers, Mahwah, NJ. Pp. 55-109, 1998.

“The Evolutionary History of Human Parental Investment in Relation to Population Growth and Social Stratification,” Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. P. A. Gowaty, Ed. Chapman & Hall, New York. Pp.466-489, 1997.

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