Wellesley College, English, BA cum laude 1958
University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology, PhD 1967
Dissertation: “Primate Communication Systems and the Emergence of Human Language”
Primate social behavior, evolution of human behavior, reproductive biology, parental investment, life history
(and B. Hamburg) School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Perspectives, 2d ed. (NY: Aldine, 2008)
(and H. Kaplan) “The Endocrinology of the Human Adaptive Complex,” pp. 45-61 in P. G. Gray and P. T. Ellison, eds., Endocrinology of Social Relationships (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)
(and H, 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)
(H. Kaplan, M. Gurven and 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)
(H. Kaplan, Lancaster and A. Robson) “Embodied Capital and the Evolutionary Economics of the Human Life Span,” pp. 152-82 in J. R. Carey and S. Tuljapurkar, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, Supplement to Population and Development Review, Vol. 29 (2003)
(H. Kaplan and Lancaster) “An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment,” pp. 170-23 in K. W. Wachter and R. A. Bulatao, eds., Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003)
(H. Kaplan, Lancaster, W. T. Tucker and K. G. Anderson) “An Evolutionary Approach to Below Replacement Fertility,” American Journal of Human Biology, Special Issue on Evolutionary Approaches to Population, 14 (2002): 233-56
(H. Kaplan, K. Hill, Lancaster and A. M. Hurtado) “A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity,” Evolutionary Anthropology 9 (2000): 156-85
(Lancaster, H. Kaplan, K. Hill and A. M. Hurtado) “The Evolution of Life History, Intelligence, and Diet among Chimpanzees and Human Foragers,” pp. 47-72 in F. Tonneau and N. S. Thompson, eds., Perspectives in Ethology: Evolution, Culture and Behavior, Vol. 13 (2000) 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.