Human Behavioral Ecology

Jeremy Koster is an external faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He conducts research among indigenous Nicaraguans and co-directs a collaborative project that examines the social determinants of wealth inequality. His interdisciplinary work on the behavior and demography of domestic dogs helps to advance understandings of the mechanisms for artificial selection. Brooke Scelza is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project in Namibia, where she has been working with Himba pastoralists since 2010 to study family dynamics and reproductive decision-making. She is a former president of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. Mary K. Shenk is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on marriage, parental investment, and fertility in South Asia where she has conducted fieldwork since 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former President of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society.

Foreword Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder; 1. Human behavioral ecology Brooke Scelza, Jeremy Koster and Mary K Shenk; 2. Life history Michael D Gurven; 3. Foraging strategies Jeremy Koster and Douglas Bird; 4. Modes of production Bram Tucker; 5. Cooperation Michael Alvard and David Nolin; 6. The division of labor Brian F Codding and Rebecca Bliege Bird; 7. Status Chris von Rueden; 8. Political organization Paul L Hooper and Adrian V Jaeggi; 9. Mating Brooke A Scelza; 10. Marriage Mary K Shenk; 11. Parental care David W Lawson; 12. Allocare Karen L Kramer; 13. Demography Rebecca Sear, Siobhán M Mattison and Mary K Shenk; 14. Human biology Aaron Blackwell and Benjamin C Trumble; 15. Cultural evolution Karthik Panchanathan; 16. Evolutionary psychology H Clark Barrett; 17. The ends of human behavioral ecology Richard McElreath and Jeremy Koster; Bibliography, Index.