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Marcus John Hamilton
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In review
39. Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Nekola, and J. Okie (in review). It's about resources, not just jobs and deficits. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
38. Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Nekola, J. Okie, and W. Zuo (in review). The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic of human societies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
37. Stephens, P. R., J.H. Brown, A. Boyer, D.P. Costa, T. Dyan, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortaleus, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, C. McCain, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, J. Theodor and M.D. Uhen. (in review). Understanding the relationship between evolutionary rate and phylogenetic signal: the K/Pg extinction event as a natural experiment in mammalian body size evolution. PLoS Biology.
36. Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W. Burnside, W. Dunn, A.D. Davidson, T. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Nekola, J. Okie, and W. Zuo (in review). The macroecology of sustainability. PLoS Biology.
2012
35. Hamilton, M.J., B. Buchanan, B.B. Huckell, V.T. Holliday, and M.S. Shackley (in revision). Clovis paleoecology and lithic techology in the central Rio Grande Rift region, New Mexico. American Antiquity.
34. Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, and R.S. Walker (in press). Human Ecology. In: Sibly, R.M., A. Kodric-Brown, and J.H. Brown (eds.) Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
33. Davidson, A.D., A.G. Boyer, H. Kim, S. Pompa-Mansilla, M.J. Hamilton, D.P. Costa, G. Ceballos, and J.H. Brown (2012). Determinants of global extinction risk in marine mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. [pdf]
32. Evans, A.R., D.O. Jones, A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dayan, S.K.M. Ernest, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, F.A. Smith, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor, and M.D. Uhen (2012). The maximum rate of mammal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. (Commentry in Nature) [pdf]
31. Burnside, W., L.M.A. Bettencourt, O. Burger, M.J. Hamilton, M.E. Moses, and J.H. Brown (2012). Human macroecology: linking pattern to process in big-picture human ecology. Biological Reviews 87(1): 194-208. [pdf]
2011
30. Burger, O., J.P. DeLong, and M.J. Hamilton (2011). Industrial energy use and the human life history. Scientific Reports 1(56): DOI:10.1038/srep00056. [pdf]
29. Buchanan, B., M.J. Hamilton, K. Edinborough, and M. Collard (2011). Response to Steele (2010), “Radiocarbon dates as data: quantitative strategies for estimating colonization front speeds and event densities”. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 2116-2122. [pdf]
28. Walker, R.S. and M.J. Hamilton (2011). Social complexity and linguistic diversity in the Bantu and Austronesian population expansions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 1399-1404. [pdf]
27. Buchanan, B., M. Collard, M.J. Hamilton, and M.J. O'Brien (2011). Points and prey: a quantitative test of the hypothesis that prey size influences early Paleoindian projectile point form. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 852-864. [pdf]26. Hamilton, M.J., A.D. Davidson, R.M. Sibly, and J.H. Brown (2011). Universal scaling of production rates across mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278: 560-566. [pdf]
25. Brown, J.H., W. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, J.P. DeLong, W. Dunn, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado Silva, J. Okie, W. Woodruff, and W. Zuo (2011). Ecological limits to economic growth. BioScience 61(1): 19-26. (Faculty of 1000) [pdf]
2010
24. Smith, F.A., A.G. Boyer, J.H. Brown, D.P. Costa, T. Dayan, S.K.M. Ernest, A.R. Evans, M. Fortelius, J.L. Gittleman, M.J. Hamilton, L.E. Harding, K. Lintulaakso, S.K. Lyons, C. McCain, J.G. Okie, J.J. Saarinen, R.M. Sibly, P.R. Stephens, J. Theodor and M.D. Uhen (2010). The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330: 1216-1219. [pdf]23. DeLong, J.P., O. Burger, and M.J. Hamilton (2010). Current demographics suggest that future energy supplies will be inadequate to slow human population growth. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13206. (Faculty of 1000) [pdf]
22. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2010). Archaeological support for the three-stage expansion of modern humans across northeastern Eurasia and into the Americas. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12472. [pdf] (Editor's Choice in Science [pdf])21. Collard, M., B. Buchanan, M.J. Hamilton, and M.J. O'Brien (2010). Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Clovis/Folsom transition. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 2513-2519. [pdf]
20. Smith, F.A ., M.J. Hamilton, and J.H. Brown (2010). On the size-selectivity of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions (invited commentary). Evolutionary Ecology Research 12: 405-407. [pdf]
19. Burger, O., R.S. Walker, and M.J. Hamilton (2010). Lifetime reproductive effort in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1682): 773-777. [pdf]
2009
18. Hamilton, M.J., B. Huckell, and M.S. Shackley (2009). Clovis obsidian sources in the central Rio Grande Rift region, New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26: 62-65. [pdf]
17. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2009). Archaeological and paleobiological problems with the case for the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact event (invited commentary). Journal of Cosmology 2: 415-417. [link]
16. Hamilton, M.J., O. Burger, J. DeLong, R.S. Walker, M.E. Moses, and J.H. Brown (2009). Population stability, cooperation and the invasibility of the human species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106(30): 12255-12260. [pdf]
15. Davidson, A.D., M.J. Hamilton, A. Boyer, J.H. Brown, and G. Ceballos (2009). Multiple pathways to extinction in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106(26): 1702-1705. [pdf]
14. Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (2009). A formal test of the origin of variation in North American Early Paleoindian points. American Antiquity 74(2): 279-299. [pdf]
13. Holliday, V.T., B.B. Huckell, M.J. Hamilton, W.R. Reitze, and J.H. Mayer (2009). Geoarchaeology of the Mockingbird Gap (Clovis) Site, Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico. Geoarchaeology 24(3): 348-370. [pdf]
12. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2009). The accumulation of stochastic copying errors causes drift in culturally transmitted technologies: quantifying Clovis evolutionary dynamics. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28: 55-69. [pdf]
2008
11. Hamilton, M.J. (2008). Quantifying Clovis Dynamics: Confronting Theory with Models and Data Across Scales. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. [pdf]
10. Huckell, B.B., V.T. Holliday, M.J. Hamilton, C. Sinkovec, C. Merriman, M. S. Shackley, and R.H. Weber (2008). The Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site: 2007 Investigations. Current Research in the Pleistocene 25: 95-97. [pdf]
9. Walker, R.S. and M.J. Hamilton (2008). Life history consequences of density-dependence and the evolution of human body sizes. Current Anthropology 49(1): 115-122. [pdf]
8. Walker, R.S., M. Gurven, O. Burger, and M.J. Hamilton (2008). The trade-off between number and size of offspring in humans and other primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275(1636): 827-833. [pdf]
2007
7. Hamilton, M.J. and B. Buchanan (2007). Spatial gradients in Clovis-age radiocarbon dates across North America suggest rapid colonization from the north. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104(40): 15629-15634. [pdf]
6. Hamilton, M.J., B.T. Milne, R.S. Walker, O. Burger, and J.H. Brown (2007). The complex structure of hunter-gatherer social networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1622): 2195-2202. [pdf]
5. Hamilton, M.J., B.T. Milne, R.S. Walker and J.H. Brown (2007). Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104(11): 4765-4769. [pdf]
<2006
4. Burger, O., M.J. Hamilton, and R.S. Walker (2005). The prey as patch model: Optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(8): 1147-1158. [pdf]
3. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, and M.J. Hamilton (2003). 2002 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, north-central New Mexico. Current Research in the Pleistocene 20: 33-34.
2. Huckell, B.B., J.D. Kilby, B. Buchanan, M.J. Hamilton and S. Ruth (2002). 2001 excavations at Boca Negra Folsom site, north-central New Mexico.Current Research in the Pleistocene 19: 39-40.
1. Hamilton, M.J. (1998). Broken Bison Bones: A Faunal Analysis of 41LUI Area 10, Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, USA. B.Sc. dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK.
Other writing
Huckell, B.B., V.T. Holliday, D.S. Amick, P.D. LeTourneau, M.E. Hill, C.V. Haynes, and M.J. Hamilton (2008). Remebering Robert H. Weber, 1919-2008. Mammoth Trumpet 23(3):8-9. [pdf]
Hamilton, M.J., R. Holdaway, and S. Litvin (2005). Statistical self-similarity in the structural organization of human forager populations. Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 2005.
Hamilton, M.J. and M. Gill (2002). Excavation program at 41LU1 Area 10 for the 1998 field season. In: E.J. Johnson (Ed.). Holocene Investigations at the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, 1991-2000. Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series No. 11, Museum of Texas Tech University.
Hamilton, M.J. (2002). Excavation program at 41LU1 Area 5 for the 1998 field season. In: E.J. Johnson (Ed.). Holocene Investigations at the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, 1991-2000. Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series No. 11, Museum of Texas Tech University.
Buchanan, B. and M.J. Hamilton (2002). Excavation program at 41LU1 Area 5 for the 2000 field season at the Lubbock Lake Landmark. In: E.J. Johnson (Ed.). Holocene Investigations at the Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas, 1991-2000. Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series No. 11, Museum of Texas Tech University.
Hamilton, M.J. (1994). Glass Artifact Analysis of the Lamb County Survey. In: E.J. Johnson (Ed.). Wastewater Treatment Plant Survey, Lamb County, Texas. Lubbock Lake Landmark Quaternary Research Center Series, Museum of Texas Tech University.
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