M B Mulder

Biographic Data

ID2767
NAMEM B Mulder
GIVEN NAMESM B
FAMILY NAMEMulder
SIGNATUREMULDER M B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Davis
ORCID0000-0003-1117-5984
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS749
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX17

  • A smart challenge but ultimately mistimed and misleading

    Open AccessM B MulderARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2026

  • Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources

    Open AccessJeffrey Andrews, Vicken Hillis et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025

    Policies create externalities. In conservation, one of the most common types of externalities is leakage, where damages are exported beyond a policy's jurisdictional boundaries. Although much research has measured leakage, little addresses its impact on the lives of people suffering from damages from leakage. This paper develops a comprehensive modeling framework to formalize the dynamics by which individuals and communities exposed to leakage ad…

  • Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community‐based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya

    Open AccessLindsay A Walker, Deepali Gohil et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    For Community‐based Conservation (CBC) projects to be effective in the long‐term, they need to receive the support of the communities involved. Assessing whether CBC governance systems are working effectively is challenging, and it is important to evaluate both the characteristics of these governance systems, and the perceptions of community members. It is also important to understand how factors other than the governance features of individual C…

  • The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance

    Open AccessJeffrey Andrews, Matt Clark et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 13

    With commons encompassing approximately 65% of Earth’s surface and vast tracts of the ocean, a critical challenge for sustainability involves establishing effective institutions for governing these common-pool resources (CPR). While examples of successful governance exist, the circumstances and mechanisms behind their development have often faded from historical records and memories. Drawing on ethnographic work, we introduce a generic evolutiona…

  • The value of failure

    Open AccessJeffrey Andrews, M B MulderARTICLEEcological Economics2024References: 10

    Conservation projects have a lifecycle; they are born, they grow, and they can die. However, researchers know little about how the legacy of a project that failed to deliver upon its promised goals affects former participants' willingness to participate in future conservation programming. We utilize a natural experiment—an expiration of a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD+) readiness project that failed to yield paym…

  • Friends near and afar, through thick and thin

    Open AccessK M Smith, A C Pisor et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2023

  • How community forest management performs when Redd+ payments fail

    Open AccessAmy C Collins, Mark N Grote et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    The reduced emissions in deforestation and degradation (REDD+) initiative uses payments for ecosystem services as incentives for developing countries to manage and protect their forests. REDD+ initiatives also prioritize social (and environmental) co-benefits aimed at improving the livelihoods of communities that are dependent on forests. Despite the incorporation of co-benefits into REDD+ goals, carbon sequestration remains the primary metric fo…

  • What People Say and How People Play

    Nicole Naar, Mark N Grote et al.ARTICLEGlobal Perspectives2022

    Does resource extraction during experimental economic games reflect resource use and behavior in other contexts? This question about external validity is central to determining the inferences that can be drawn from experimental evidence to broader sets of circumstances. Building on previous studies of external validity, which often raise concerns about the generalizability of experimental economic games to other contexts, we instead highlight par…

  • Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba

    Open AccessJeffrey Andrews, M B MulderARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 4References: 10

  • Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania

    Open AccessI Pretelli, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2022Cited by: 2References: 14

    Humans live in diverse, complex niches where survival and reproduction are conditional on the acquisition of knowledge. Humans also have long childhoods, spending more than a decade before they become net producers. Whether the time needed to learn has been a selective force in the evolution of long human childhood is unclear, because there is little comparative data on the growth of ecological knowledge throughout childhood. We measured ecologic…

  • Reproductive Decisions

    M B MulderCHAPTEREvolutionary Ecology and Human…2017

    This chapter examines some of the principles that guide reproductive decision-making. It explores how evolutionary ecology can frame analyses of some of the diverse reproductive decisions, by focusing on these and other concepts derived from animal studies. Animal studies make it clear that variability in mating systems is the outcome of adaptive adjustments of males and females to the specifics of their social and ecological environments, as wel…

  • Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty, and poor child health in northern Tanzania

    Open AccessD W Lawson, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2017

    OBJECTIVES: The importance of fathers in ensuring child health in rural developing populations is questioned by anthropologists and population health scientists. Existing literature focuses on paternal death and child mortality. A relative lack of studies consider alternative forms of father absence and/or more subtle health outcomes. Here we determine the frequency and form of father absence in northern Tanzania, and its relationship to househol…

  • Cultural group selection and the design of Redd

    Open AccessJeffrey Andrews, M B MulderARTICLESustainability Science2017Cited by: 2References: 17

    Evolutionary analyses of the ways humans manage natural resources have until recently focused on the costs and benefits of prudent resource use to the individual. In contrast, the fields of environmental resource management and sustainability focus on institutions whereby successful practices can be established and maintained, and the extent to which these fit specific environmental conditions. Furthermore, recent theoretical work explores how re…

  • Applying cultural evolution to sustainability challenges

    Open AccessJeremy Brooks, Timothy M Waring et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2017Cited by: 15References: 7

  • Launching the Cultural Evolutionary Society

    Open AccessM B MulderARTICLEAnthropology News2017

  • Evidence for quantity–quality trade-offs, sex-specific parental investment, and variance compensation in colonized Agta foragers undergoing demographic transition

    Open AccessC T Ro, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2016

  • The Origins and Maintenance of Female Genital Modification across Africa

    Open AccessC T Ro, Cody T Ross et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2016Cited by: 6References: 53

  • Sending children to school

    Open AccessSophie Hedge, Sophie Hedges et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2015Cited by: 11References: 11

    Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental strategies, and that such strategies emerge first in relatively wealthy families within populations undergoing 'modernization'. However, most research focuses on fertility reduction rather than shifting parental investment, and few studies consider how parental decisions regarding educational investme…

  • Who Helps and Why

    Open AccessClaudia Kasper, M B MulderARTICLECurrent Anthropology2015Cited by: 25References: 131

    Studies that examine how helping behavior varies among individuals shed light on both the extent and the variation of human cooperative tendencies and the potential fragility of genealogical kinship in structuring prosociality. Here we explore the importance of both reciprocal altruism and kin selection in structuring cooperation in a contemporary African village context (Mpimbwe, Tanzania), where ethnographic observations suggest that traditiona…

  • How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects

    Open AccessJeremy S Brooks, Jeremy Brooks et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2012

    Community-based conservation (CBC) promotes the idea that conservation success requires engaging with, and providing benefits for, local communities. However, CBC projects are neither consistently successful nor free of controversy. Innovative recent studies evaluating the factors associated with success and failure typically examine only a single resource domain, have limited geographic scope, consider only one outcome, or ignore the nested natu…

  • Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs

    Open AccessMary C Towner, Mark N Grote et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2012Cited by: 6References: 59

  • Wealth Inequality in Foraging, Horticultural, Pastoral, and Agricultural Populations

    E A Smith, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2011Cited by: 2References: 11

  • The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies

    Samuel Bowle, Samuel Bowles et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 77References: 57

    In this special section we propose an interpretation of the emergence and persistence of wealth inequality in premodern populations along with ethnographic and quantitative evidence exploring this hypothesis. The long-term trajectory of inequality in premodern societies, we suggest, is based on the differing importance of three classes of wealth-material, embodied, and relational-together with differences in the transmission of these types of wea…

  • Production Systems, Inheritance, and Inequality in Premodern Societies

    E A Smith, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 47References: 28

    Premodern human societies differ greatly in socioeconomic inequality. Despite much useful theorizing on the causes of these differences, individual-level quantitative data on wealth inequality is lacking. The papers in this special section provide the first comparable estimates of intergenerational wealth transmission and inequality in premodern societies, with data on more than 40 measures of embodied, material, and relational wealth from 21 pre…

  • Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists

    M K Shenk, M B Mulder et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2010Cited by: 48References: 57

    This paper uses data from eight past and present societies practicing intensive agriculture to measure the transmission of wealth across generations in preindustrial agricultural societies. Focusing on embodied, material, and relational forms of wealth, we compare levels of wealth between parents and children to estimate how effectively wealth is transmitted from one generation to the next and how inequality in one generation impacts inequality i…