My primary interests include cooperation and competition in human social networks, and the evolutionary and ecological factors driving the emergence of cooperation, dominance, and leadership. I'm interested in integrating coercive and mutual-benefit scenarios of social hierarchy formation and seek to explain variation in hierarchy and inequality across societies. I do fieldwork with the Tsimane', a group native to the Bolivian Amazon.
publications
P.L. Hooper and G.F. Miller (2008) “Mutual mate choice can drive costly signaling even under perfect monogamy." Adaptive Behavior 16(1), 53-70. pdf Supplement: pdf
J. Winking, H. Kaplan, M. Gurven, and P.L. Hooper. "Evolution of the post-reproductive lifespan." In preparation for Demography. pdf
other recent research
“The conditions favoring solitary, egalitarian, and managed economies: Benefits of cooperation and costs of shirking,” with Hillard Kaplan. Presented at SFI on February 19, 2006.
“The role of heat shock proteins in diabetes, aging, and longevity," with Philip Hooper. Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences lecture, UNM, March 10, 2006.
I studied Islamic and Eurasian history and languages at Princeton with special emphasis on the Irano-Turkic world, from the Balkans to Central Asia.
Senior thesis (2003) - Forced population transfers in early Ottoman imperial strategy: A comparative approach. pdf
a few more links
veedevice - steppe revolutionaries
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project
Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
Program in Interdisciplinary Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Oskar Burger, Mike Gurven, Philip Hooper, Hillard Kaplan, Geoffrey Miller, Josh Tybur, Rob Walker, Jeff Winking
CV pdf
