Raymond B Hames
Biographic Data
| ID | 106711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond B Hames |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond B |
| FAMILY NAME | Hames |
| SIGNATURE | HAMES R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real
The “female fertility–social stratification–hypergyny” hypothesis of male homosexual preference
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…
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
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…
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
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
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…
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…
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians
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…
The “female fertility–social stratification–hypergyny” hypothesis of male homosexual preference
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real
Biology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 works) · Amazon rainforest (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)