"To see these patterns which are bigger than ourselves, let us take a special view through the macroscope." 

H.T. Odum 1971
 
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Some reading material (most are links to .pdfs):

 

Ginzburg, L., O. Burger, and J. Damuth. (in review) The May threshold and life history allometry.

 

Burger, O., R. Walker, and M. Hamilton (2009) Lifetime reproductive effort in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

 

Burger, O., L. Ginzburg. (in press, 2009) On size and extinction: A random walk model predicts the body size of lowest risk for mammals. Evolutionary Ecology Research. (link requires institutional subscription to EER. If you don’t have access and would like a reprint just send me an email.)

 

Hamilton, M., O. Burger, M. Moses, J. DeLong, R. Walker, and J. Brown. (2009) Population stability, cooperation and the invasibility of the human species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 106, pp. 12255 – 12260.

 

Burger, O., L. Todd, P. Burnett. (2008) The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains. In Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains, pp. 203 – 236, edited by L. L. Scheiber and B. Clark. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

 

Walker, R., M. Gurven , O. Burger, M. Hamilton. (2008) The trade-off between number and size of offspring in humans and other primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Vol. 275, pp. 827 – 833.

 

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, Vol. 274, pp. 2195 – 2202.

 

Burger, O. and L. Todd. (2006) Grain, Extent, and Intensity: the Components of Scale in Archaeological Survey. In Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues in Theory and Practice, pp. 235 – 256, edited by G. Lock and B. Molyneaux. Springer, New York.

 

Walker, R., O. Burger, J. Wagner, and C. R. Van Rueden. (2006) Evolution of Brain Size and Juvenile Periods in Primates. Journal of Human Evolution, Vol. 51, pp. 480 – 489.

 

Walker, R., K. Hill, O. Burger, and M. Hurtado. (2006) Life in the Slow Lane Revisited: Ontogenetic Separation between Chimpanzees and Humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 29(4), pp. 577 – 583.

 

Burger, O., M. Hamilton, and R. Walker. (2005) The Prey as Patch Model: Optimal Handling of Resources with Diminishing Returns. Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 32, pp. 1147 – 1158.

 

Burger, O., L. Todd, T. Stohlgren, P. Burnett, and D. Stephens. (2004) Multi-Scale and Nested-Intensity Sampling Techniques for Archaeological Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, pp. 409 – 423.

 

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Pawar, S., O. Burger, B. Hallmark, G. Bagler, F. Wang, and F. Xue. (2005) Evolution of Food-web Networks in Fluctuating Environments. Student report for the Complex Systems Summer School 2005, Beijing. On file at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

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An interesting Plains Anthropological Conference poster that I recommend for anyone interested in the interpretation of radiocarbon date profiles.