R Hames
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1525 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Hames |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Hames |
| FIRMA | HAMES R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6931-3342 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 353 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter
The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with disparate meanings across communities of scholars, journalists, and the public, which has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this paper, we ask: what does Man the Hunter mean? We distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter. First, in the early-to-mid 20th century, popular writers propagated ideas of human evolution that focused on hunting, men, aggre…
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real
Polyandry
Although polyandry is rare, it is not as rare as commonly believed, even though standard references claim it is permissible in about 0.7 to 1.1 percent of all societies in large cross‐cultural samples of preindustrial societies. However, it is found worldwide, most commonly in small‐scale societies. Given its prevalence among small‐scale societies, especially hunter‐gatherers, polyandry likely existed during early human history and should be exam…
Cultural and reproductive success and the causes of war
In memoriam
Napoleon A. Chagnon
Pacifying Hunter-Gatherers
Time Allocation
Evolutionary analyses of behavior typically identify two types of effort: somatic and reproductive. Any time an individual engages in an activity two kinds of costs are incurred: opportunity and resource costs. Optimal allocation of time in a particular activity permits an individual either to maximize resource accumulation or to minimize the time devoted to resource accumulation. The greatest distance between the two curves represents the optima…
Is Male Androphilia a Context-Dependent Cross-Cultural Universal
Human grooming in comparative perspective
OBJECTIVES: Grooming has important utilitarian and social functions in primates but little is known about grooming and its functional analogues in traditional human societies. We compare human grooming to typical primate patterns to test its hygienic and social functions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Bayesian phylogenetic analyses were used to derive expected human grooming time given the potential associations between grooming, group size, body size, …
Busting Myths about Evolutionary Anthropology
Change in Male Hunting Returns
A Problematic Test of the Kin Selection Hypothesis Among the Urak-Lawoi of Ko Lipe, Thailand
Camperio Ciani et al. argued that the Urak-Lawoi people of Ko Lipe island live in a "traditional," "subsistence primitive society" reminiscent of the "ancestral" human past and that their socio-cultural situation is "remarkably similar" to Samoa. On this basis, they asserted that the Ko Lipe Urak-Lawoi are an appropriate population for determining the role that kin selection played in the evolution of male androphilia. The purpose of this comment…
Human Behavioral Ecology
Postscript to “Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia”
Multilevel modeling analysis of dyadic network data with an application to Ye'kwana food sharing
Behavioral ecologists have recently begun using multilevel modeling for the analysis of social behavior. We present a multilevel modeling formulation of the Social Relations Model that is well suited for the analysis of dyadic network data. This model, which we adapt for count data and small datasets, can be fitted using standard multilevel modeling software packages. We illustrate this model with an analysis of meal sharing among Ye'kwana hortic…
The “female fertility–social stratification–hypergyny” hypothesis of male homosexual preference
A life history perspective on skin cancer and the evolution of skin pigmentation
The ancestral state of human skin pigmentation evolved in response to high ultraviolet radiation (UVR) stress. Some argue that pigmentation evolved to limit folate photolysis, therein limiting neural tube defects. Pigmentation also protects against sunburn which decreases the efficiency of sweating and potentiates skin infection. Pigmentation increases the efficacy of skin as a barrier to infection. Skin cancer has been rejected or minimized as a…
Diversity in Human Behavioral Ecology
A Survey of Non-Classical Polyandry
Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia
Statement on the Publication of Alice Dreger’s Investigation, Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association
Environmental Social Sciences
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and envir…
Time Diary versus Instantaneous Sampling
The accurate collection of unbiased behavioral data is an important component of theory building and ethnographic research. In this article, the authors review two approaches for the collection of behavioral data: time diary and instantaneous sampling. Time diary requires individuals to recall their behavior at specific time intervals; instantaneous sampling relies on researchers observing and recording the behavior of individuals. Each approach …
The Allocation of Parental Care among the Ye'kwana
It is well known that human children require more care or parental investment than any other primate species (Lancaster and Lancaster 1983). While this dimension of human behavior is well documented in the psychological literature for Euroamerican populations (Babchuck et al. 1985), it has received scant, quantitative attention by anthropologists working among tribal populations (for exceptions see Whiting and Whiting 1975, Katz and Konner 1981, …
The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate
Debate around the ecologically noble savage represents two markedly different research threads. The first addresses the issue of conservation among native peoples and narrowly focuses on case studies of resource use of ethnographic, archaeological, or historic sources. The second thread is broader and more humanistic and political in orientation and considers the concept of ecological nobility in terms of identity, ecological knowledge, ideology,…
Optimal diet breadth theory as a model to explain variability in Amazonian hunting
Optimal foraging theory is a set of related models from evolutionary ecology that predict the range and proportions of food items a predator should consume (diet breadth), where and how long it should hunt (patch choice), and how it should move (path choice). This paper assesses the utility of such models in anthropology by applying an optimal diet breadth approach to the analysis of hunting yields in three Amazonian societies. Specifically, we a…
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
Meal sharing among the Ye'kwana
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung)
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
Pacifying Hunter-Gatherers
Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. 404 pp
Is Male Androphilia a Context-Dependent Cross-Cultural Universal
Time Diary versus Instantaneous Sampling
The accurate collection of unbiased behavioral data is an important component of theory building and ethnographic research. In this article, the authors review two approaches for the collection of behavioral data: time diary and instantaneous sampling. Time diary requires individuals to recall their behavior at specific time intervals; instantaneous sampling relies on researchers observing and recording the behavior of individuals. Each approach …
Perspectives on Tierney'sDarkness in El Dorado
Human grooming in comparative perspective
OBJECTIVES: Grooming has important utilitarian and social functions in primates but little is known about grooming and its functional analogues in traditional human societies. We compare human grooming to typical primate patterns to test its hygienic and social functions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Bayesian phylogenetic analyses were used to derive expected human grooming time given the potential associations between grooming, group size, body size, …
Multilevel modeling analysis of dyadic network data with an application to Ye'kwana food sharing
Behavioral ecologists have recently begun using multilevel modeling for the analysis of social behavior. We present a multilevel modeling formulation of the Social Relations Model that is well suited for the analysis of dyadic network data. This model, which we adapt for count data and small datasets, can be fitted using standard multilevel modeling software packages. We illustrate this model with an analysis of meal sharing among Ye'kwana hortic…
A life history perspective on skin cancer and the evolution of skin pigmentation
The ancestral state of human skin pigmentation evolved in response to high ultraviolet radiation (UVR) stress. Some argue that pigmentation evolved to limit folate photolysis, therein limiting neural tube defects. Pigmentation also protects against sunburn which decreases the efficiency of sweating and potentiates skin infection. Pigmentation increases the efficacy of skin as a barrier to infection. Skin cancer has been rejected or minimized as a…
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Protein Deficiency and Tribal Warfare in Amazonia
Increasing numbers of anthropological studies about native Amazonian warfare and demographic practices attempt to explain these phenomena as competition over or a response to scarce game animals and other sources of high-quality protein. Recently completed field research among the Yanomamö Indians living at the Venezuela-Brazil border indicates that their protein intake is comparable to that found in highly developed industrialized nations and as…
A comparison of the efficiencies of the shotgun and the bow in neotropical forest hunting
Optimal diet breadth theory as a model to explain variability in Amazonian hunting
Optimal foraging theory is a set of related models from evolutionary ecology that predict the range and proportions of food items a predator should consume (diet breadth), where and how long it should hunt (patch choice), and how it should move (path choice). This paper assesses the utility of such models in anthropology by applying an optimal diet breadth approach to the analysis of hunting yields in three Amazonian societies. Specifically, we a…
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
Monoculture, polyculture, and polyvariety in tropical forest Swidden cultivation
On the definition and measure of inclusive fitness and the evolution of menopause
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Through Amazonian Eyes
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung)
Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-Term Food Stress
The 1998 El Niño significantly reduced garden productivity in the Upper Orinoco region in Venezuela. Consequently, parents were forced to allocate food carefully to their children. Nutrition data collected from village children combined with genealogical data allowed the determination of which children suffered most, and whether the patterns of food distribution accorded with predictions from parental investment theory. For boys, three social var…
Perspectives on Tierney'sDarkness in El Dorado
Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
Growth rates and life histories in twenty‐two small‐scale societies
This study investigates variation in body growth (cross‐sectional height and weight velocity) among a sample of 22 small‐scale societies. Considerable variation in growth exists among hunter‐gatherers that overlaps heavily with growth trajectories present in groups focusing more on horticulture. Intergroup variation tends to track environmental conditions, with societies under more favorable conditions displaying faster growth and earlier puberty…
Meal sharing among the Ye'kwana
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life. Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. 404 pp
The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate
Debate around the ecologically noble savage represents two markedly different research threads. The first addresses the issue of conservation among native peoples and narrowly focuses on case studies of resource use of ethnographic, archaeological, or historic sources. The second thread is broader and more humanistic and political in orientation and considers the concept of ecological nobility in terms of identity, ecological knowledge, ideology,…
Environmental Social Sciences
The relationship between human communities and the environment is extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this 2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and envir…
Time Diary versus Instantaneous Sampling
The accurate collection of unbiased behavioral data is an important component of theory building and ethnographic research. In this article, the authors review two approaches for the collection of behavioral data: time diary and instantaneous sampling. Time diary requires individuals to recall their behavior at specific time intervals; instantaneous sampling relies on researchers observing and recording the behavior of individuals. Each approach …
Statement on the Publication of Alice Dreger’s Investigation, Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association
A Survey of Non-Classical Polyandry
Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia
The “female fertility–social stratification–hypergyny” hypothesis of male homosexual preference
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