People - Faculty

Hillard Kaplan
Professor of Anthropology (Evolutionary Anthropology)
At UNM since Fall 1986
hkaplan@unm.edu

505.277.1541

Web site http://www.unm.edu/~hkaplan


Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • The Human Life Course (160)
  • Human Evolutionary Ecology (462)
  • Human Life History Theory (562)
  • Human Evolutionary Ecology Research Methods (663)

Education

McGill University, English, BA summa cum laude 1975
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School of Communications, MA 1980
Columbia University, Anthropology, MA 1983
University of Utah, Anthropology, PhD 1983
Dissertation: “The Evolution of Food Sharing among Adult Conspecifics: Research with Ache Hunter-Gatherers of Paraguay”


Research

Human life course, evolutionary ecology, subsistence behavior, sex roles, hunters and gatherers; South America, Africa


Selected Publications

(Kaplan, S. Gangestad, J. Lancaster, M. Gurven and A. Robson) “The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life History among Primates and Humans,” pp. 47-90 in W. Roebocks, ed., Guts, Brains, Food and the Social Life of Early Hominids (Leiden: University of Leiden Press, 2007)

(A. Robson and Kaplan) “Why Do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging,” American Economic Review 97 (2007): 492-95

(J. Lancaster and Kaplan) “Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life History, Diet and the Mind,” pp. 111-20 in S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds., The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (NY: Guilford Publications, 2007)

(and S. Gangestad) “Optimality and Brain Evolution,” pp. 121-29 in S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds., The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (NY: Guilford Publications, 2007)

(Kaplan, M. Gurven and J. Lancaster) “Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An Ecological and Social Theory,” pp. 269-79 in S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds., The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies (NY: Guilford Publications, 2007)

(K. G. Anderson, Kaplan and J. Lancaster) “Confidence of Paternity: Divorce and Investment in Children by Albuquerque Men,” Evolution and Human Behavior 28 (2007): 1-10


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