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Hillard Kaplan
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Evolutionary Anthropology

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     SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
    in press
  • Kaplan, H. and Gurven, M. Top-down and bottom-up research in biodemography. Demographic Research (in press).
  • Gurven, M. Kaplan, H, Winking, J., Finch, C., Crimmins, E.M. Aging and Inflammation in Two Epidemiological Worlds. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences (in press).

  • 2007
  • Ohl-Schacherer, J., Sheppard, G.H. Kaplan, H. Peres, C.A.L Levi, T. and Yu, D. W. 2007.The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting by Matsigenka Native Communities in Manu National Park, Peru. Conservation Biology Volume 21(5).1174-1185
  • Gurven, M and Kaplan, H. 2007. Longevity among hunter-gatherers: a cross-cultural examination. Population and Development Review 33(2):321-365.
  • Robson, A. and Kaplan, H. 2007. Why do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging. American Economic Review 97(2): 492-95.
  • Winking, J., H. Kaplan, M. Gurven, S. Rucas. 2007. Why do men marry and why do they stray? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences., Published on line May 2007.
  • Gurven, M, Kaplan, H. & A. Zelada Supa. Mortality Experience of Tsimane Amerindians of Bolivia: Regional variation and temporal trends. American Journal of Human Biology 19:376-398 (2007).
  • Anderson, K.G, H. Kaplan & J. Lancaster Confidence of Paternity, Divorce and Investment in Children by Albuquerque Men. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:1, Pages 1-10, January 2007.
  • Kaplan, H. Gangestad, S, Lancaster, J., Gurven, M. and Robson, A. The evolution of diet, brain and life history among primates and humans. In Guts, Brains, Food and the Social Life of Early Hominids. W. Roebocks, ed. Leiden: University of Leiden Press. 2007 pp.47-90.
  • Lancaster, J.B. and H. S. Kaplan. Chimpanzee and human intelligence: Life history, diet and the mind. In: S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds. The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY: Guilford Publications. Pp:111-120, 2007.
  • Kaplan, H. and Gangestad, S. Optimality and Brain Evolution: In: S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds. The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY: Guilford Publications: Pp:121-129, 2007.
  • Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. and Lancaster, H. Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex: An ecological and social theory. In: S. W. Gangestad and J. A. Simpson, eds. The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY: Guilford Publications. Pp:269-279, 2007.

  • 2006
  • Gurven, M, Kaplan, H., & Guitierrez, M. How long does it take to become a proficient hunter? Implications on the evolution of delayed growth. Journal of Human Evolution, in press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 May 2006.
  • Anderson, K.G., H. Kaplan & J. Lancaster. Demographic correlates of paternity confidence among Albuquerque men. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, in press, published on line 9 May 2006.
  • Kaplan, H. The Life History of a Foraging Species. Daedalus (On Aging): 48-57, Winter 2006.
  • Robson, A. & Kaplan, H. The Economics of Hunter Gatherer Societies and the Evolution of Human Characteristics. Canadian Journal of Economics 39(2): 375-398, March 2006.
  • Walker, R M Gurven, K. Hill, A. Migliano, N. Chagnon, R. De Souza, G. Djurovic, R. Hames, A. M. Hurtado, H. Kaplan, K. Kramer, W. J. Oliver, C. Valeggia, & T. Yamuach. Growth Rates and Life Histories in Twenty-Two Small-Scale Societies. American Journal of Human Biology 18.3(May-June 2006): p295-311.
  • Kaplan, H, & Gurven, M. Determinants of Time Allocation Across the Lifespan:A Theoretical Model and an application to the Machiguenga and Piro of Peru. Human Nature, Mar 2006, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p1-49.
  • Rucas, S.L., Gurven, M, Kaplan, H., Winking, Jeff, Gangestad, S. and Crespo, M. Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 27, Issue 1, P. 40-52 (January 2006).

  • 2005
  • Kaplan, H, & Gurven, M. The Natural History of Human Food Sharing and Cooperation: A Review and a New Multi-Individual Approach to the Negotiation of Norms. In Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: On the Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr (eds.), MIT Press, 2005.
  • Kaplan, H. & Gangestad, S. Life History Theory and Evolutionary Psychology. In. The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. David M. Buss (ed). John Wiley and Sons: Pp 68-95. 2005.

  • 2003
  • Kaplan, HS, Lancaster, JB, & Robson, A. Embodied Capital and the Evolutionary Economics Of the Human Lifespan. In: Lifespan: Evolutionary, Ecology and Demographic Perspectives, J.R. Carey & S. Tuljapakur (eds.) Population and Development Review 29, Supplement 2003, Pp. 152-182.
  • Kaplan, H, Mueller, T., Gangestad, S. and Lancaster, J. Neural Capital and Lifespan Evolution among Primates and Humans. In The Brain and Longevity. C.E. Finch, .J.-M. Robine & Y. Christen (eds.), Springer, 2003, Pp. 69-98.
  • Kaplan, H. & Lancaster, J. B., An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns and Parental Investment. In Offspring: Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective. K.W. Wachter and R.A. Bulatao (eds.) National Research Council: Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2003, Pp 170-223.
  • Kaplan, H. Evolutionary Demography. Encyclopedia of Population. P. Demeny and G. McNicoll (eds). MacMillan, 2003.
  • Tucker, W.T., Kaplan, H. and Lancaster, J.B. A life history theory of male childlessness. Human Nature, in press.
  • Robson, A. & Kaplan, H. The evolution of human life expectancy and intelligence in hunter-gatherer economies. American Economic Review 93 (1):150-169, March 2003.

    2002
  • Kaplan, H.S., and Robson, A.J. The emergence of humans: The coevolution of intelligence and longevity with intergenerational transfers. PNAS 99(15):10221-10226, 2002.
  • Kaplan, H, J. Lancaster, W. T. Tucker & K. G. Anderson. An Evolutionary Approach to Below Replacement Fertility. American Journal of Human Biology 14:233-256, 2002.
  • Walker, R., Hill, K., Kaplan, H., McMillan, G. Age dependency of hunting ability among the Ache of eastern Paraguay. Journal of Human Evolution 42:639-657, 2002.
  • Gurven, M., Hill, K. and Kaplan, H. From Forest to Reservation: Transitions in food sharing behavior among the Ache of Paraguay. Journal of Anthropological Research 58: 93-120, 2002.
  • Kaplan, H. Human Life History Evolution. In The Encyclopedia of Evolution. M Pagel (ed), Oxford University Press, 2002.

    2001
  • Kaplan, H., and Gurven, M. The Natural History of Human Food Sharing and Cooperation: A Review and New Multi-Individual Approach to the Negotiation of Norms. Conference on the Structure and Evolution of Strong Reciprocity, Santa Fe Institute, 2001.
  • Kaplan, H., and Bock, J. Fertility Theory: The embodied capital theory of life history evolution. In The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. J Hoem (ed), Vol. 8:5561-5568, Elsevier, 2001.
  • Anderson, K.G., Kaplan, H., and Lancaster, J.B. Men's Financial Expenditures on Genetic Children and Stepchildren from Current and Former Relationships. PSC Research Report, 2001.
  • Anderson, K.G., Kaplan, H., and Lancaster, J.B. Confidence of paternity, divorce, and investment in children by Albuquerque Men. Working paper.
  • Anderson, K.G., Kaplan, H., and Lancaster, J.B. Demographic correlates of paternity confidence and pregnancy outcomes among Albuquerque men. Working paper.
  • Hurtado, M., Hill, K., Kaplan, H., and Lancaster, J. The Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases among South American Indians: A Call for Guidelines for Ethical Research. Current Anthropology, 42(3):425-431, 2001.
  • A.M. Hurtado, K. Hill, H. Kaplan and J. Lancaster. Disease among indigenous South Americans. Anthropology News (February), Pp. 5-6, 2001.
  • Kaplan, HS, Hill, KR, Lancaster, JB, Hurtado, AM. The embodied capital theory of human evolution. In Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution, Ellison, P. T. (ed), Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2001.

    2000
  • Kaplan, HS, Hill, KR, Lancaster, JB, Hurtado, AM. A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity. Evolutionary Anthropology 9:156-185, 2000.
  • Gurven, M., Hill, K., Kaplan, H., Hurtado, A. M., Lyles, R. Food sharing among Hiwi foragers of Venezuela: Tests of reciprocity. Human Ecology 28:171-218, 2000.
  • Lancaster, J.B. and H. Kaplan. Parenting other men’s children: Costs, benefits and consequences. In Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: 20 years later, L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and W. Irons, eds. Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, NY, 2000.
  • Kaplan, H. and Lancaster, J.B. The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility. Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: 20 years later, L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and W. Irons, eds. Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, NY, 2000.

    1999
  • Hill, K., and Kaplan, H. Life History Traits in Humans: Theory and Empirical Studies. Annual Review of Anthropology, 28:397-438, 1999.
  • Anderson, K.G., Kaplan, H., and Lancaster, J.B. Parental care by genetic and step fathers I: Reports by men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Evolution and Human Behavior 20:405-31, 1999.
  • Anderson, K.G., Kaplan, H., Lam D., and Lancaster, J.B. Parental care by genetic and step fathers II: Reports by Xhosa high school students. Evolution and Human Behavior 20:433-51, 1999.

    1998
  • Kaplan, H., J.B. Lancaster, and K.G. Anderson. Human Parental Investment and Fertility: The Life Histories of Men in Albuquerque, NM. In Men in Families: When Do They Get Involved? What Difference Does it Make? A. Booth and N. Crouter, eds. Lawrence Earlbaum, 1998.

    1997
  • Alvard, M., J. Robinson, K. Redford, and H. Kaplan. The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting in the Neotropics. Conservation Biology 11:977-982, 1997
  • Kaplan, H. The Evolution of the Human Life Course. Between Zeus and Salmon: The Biodemography of Longevity, K. Wachter and C. Finch, eds., Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences, Pp. 175-211, 1997.

    1996
  • Kaplan, H. A Theory of Fertility and Parental Investment in Traditional and Modern Societies. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 39:91-135, 1996.
  • Kaplan, H. Optimal Foraging Theory. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, D. Levinson and M. Ember, eds., Pp. 885-887. American Reference: Lakeville, CT, 1996.

    1995
  • Kaplan, H. J. B. Lancaster, J. A. Bock and S. E. Johnson. Does Observed Fertility Maximize Fitness Among New Mexican Men? A Test Of An Optimality Model and a New Theory of Parental Investment in the Embodied Capital of Offspring. Human Nature 6:325-360, 1995.
  • Kaplan, H. J. B. Lancaster, J. A. Bock and S. E. Johnson. Fertility and Fitness among Albuquerque Men: A Competitive Labour Market Theory. In R. I. M. Dunbar, ed., Human Reproductive Decisions. London: St. Martin’s Press. Pp. 96-136. 1995.

    1994
  • Kaplan, H. Evolutionary and Wealth Flows Theories of Fertility: Empirical Tests and New Models. Population and Development Review 20(4): 753-791, 1994.
  • Hill, K. and Kaplan, H. Why Do Male Foragers Hunt and Share Food? Current Anthropology 34:701-706, 1993.

    1992
  • Lancaster, J. B., and H. Kaplan. Human Mating and Family Formation Strategies: The Effects of Variability among Males in Quality and the Allocation of Male Effort and Parental Investment. In: T. Nishida, W.C. Mcgrew, P. Marler, M. Pickford F.B.M. de Waal, eds., Topics in Primatology Vol. 1,. Pp. 21-33. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1992
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Kopischke. Resource Use, Traditional Technology and Change among Native Peoples of Lowland South America. In Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Building on Traditional Resource Use K. Redford and C. Padoch (eds). Pp. 83-107. Columbia University Press. 1992.
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Hill. The Evolutionary Ecology of Food Acquisition. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. E. Smith and B. Winterhalder (eds). Pp 167-201. Aldine, 1992.

    1991
  • Alvard, M. and Kaplan, H. Procurement Technology and Prey Mortality among Indigenous Neotropical Hunters. In Human Predators and Prey Mortality. M. Stiner (ed). Pp. 79-104. Westview Press, 1991.

    1990
  • Kaplan, H., K. Hill, and A.M. Hurtado. Risk, Foraging and Food Sharing. In Risk and Uncertainty in the Food Supply. E. Cashdan (ed). Pp 107-144. Westview Press, 1990.
  • Hill, K. and H. Kaplan. The Newly Contacted Yora (Yaminahua) of Manu National Park, Peru. AnthroQuest Winter 1990.

    1989
  • Hill, K. and H. Kaplan. Population Description and Dry Season Subsistence among the Newly Contacted Yora (Yaminahua) of Manu National Park, Peru. National Geographic Research 5(3):317-334,1989.

    1988
  • Hill, K. and H. Kaplan. Tradeoffs in Male and Female Reproductive Strategies among the Ache: Part 1 - Males. In Human Reproductive Behavior. L. Betzig, P. Turke and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (eds). Pp. 277-289. Cambridge University Press,1988.
  • Hill, K. and H. Kaplan. Tradeoffs in Male and Female Reproductive Strategies among the Ache: Part 2 - Females. In Human Reproductive Behavior. L. Betzig, P. Turke and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (eds). Pp 291-305. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

    1987
  • Hill, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hawkes and A. Hurtado. Foraging Decisions among the Ache: New Data and Analysis. Ethology and Sociobiology 8: 1-36, 1987.
  • Kaplan, H. and H. Dove. Infant Development among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. Developmental Psychology 23:190-198, 1987.
  • Kaplan, H. Human Communication and Contemporary Evolutionary Theory. Research on Language and Social Interaction 20: 79-140,1987.
  • Hawkes, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hill, and A.M. Hurtado. Some Problems with Instantaneous Scan Sampling. Journal of Anthropological Research 43 (3): 239-247, 1987.
  • Hawkes, K., H, Kaplan, K. Hill, and A.M. Hurtado. Ache at the Settlement: Contrasts between Farming and Foraging. Human Ecology 15 (2): 133-161, 1987.

    1986
  • Kaplan H. and K. Hill. Hunting and Reproductive Success: A Clarification of Methods. Current Anthropology 27:48-50, 1986.
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Hill. Sexual Strategies and Social Class Differences in Fitness in Modern Industrial Societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9: 198-99,1986.

    1985
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Hill. Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses. Current Anthropology 26 (2): 223-246, 1985.
  • Kaplan, H. Prestige and Reproductive Success in Man: A Commentary. Ethology and Sociobiology 6: 131-134, 1985.
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Hill. Hunting Ability and Reproductive Success among Male Ache Foragers. Current Anthropology 26: 131-133, 1985.
  • Hurtado, A., K. Hill, K. Hawkes and H. Kaplan. Female Subsistence Strategies among Ache Hunter-Gatherers of Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology 13: 1- 28, 1985.
  • Hill, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hawkes, and A. Hurtado. Men's Time Allocation to Activities among Ache Hunter-Gatherers. Human Ecology 13: 29-47, 1985.

    1984
  • Hill, K., K. Hawkes, H. Kaplan and A. Hurtado. Seasonal Variance in the Ache Diet. Human Ecology 12: 145-180, 1984.
  • Kaplan, H. and K. Hill. The Mashco-Piro of Manu National Park, Peru. AnthroQuest Fall 1984
  • Kaplan, H., K. Hill, K. Hawkes, and A. Hurtado. Food Sharing Among Ache Hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay. Current Anthropology 25: 113-116, 1984.

    1981
  • Schull, J., H. Kaplan, and C. O'Brien. Naloxone Can Alter Experimental Pain and Mood in Humans. Physiological Psychology 9 (3), 245-250, 1981.

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