M Alvard
Biographic Data
| ID | 13463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Alvard |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvard |
| SIGNATURE | ALVARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4010-1992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Food Sharing in Human Societies: Anthropological Perspectives
A Naturalistic Study of Norm Conformity, Punishment, and the Veneration of the Dead at Texas A&M University, USA
Identifying Patch Types Using Movement Data from Artisanal Fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica
We use GPS tracking data and a machine learning approach to examine the movement of artisanal fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica during their foraging trips. The model examines track segments previously identified as resource patches by a cumulative sum method. We build on this work by using domain knowledge to train a classification and regression tree analysis to discern different patch types, including patches associated with fish aggre…
Procurement Technology and Prey Mortality Among Indigenous Neotropical Hunters
This chapter discusses the predatory strategies of bow and arrow hunters with those of neighboring shotgun hunters in some native hunter-horticulturist communities in the lowland tropics of southeastern Peru. It examines how hunting strategies vary between the two technologies with respect to pursuit time and prey selection by species, age and sex. Animals are encountered by sight and/or sound, sometimes flushed by dogs if present, and for some s…
A Method for Measuring Fishing Effort by Small-scale Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) Fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica
We used global positioning system (GPS) technology and tracking analysis to measure fishing effort by marine, small-scale, fish aggregating device (FAD) fishers of the Commonwealth of Dominica. FADs are human-made structures designed to float on the surface of the water and attract fish. They are also prone to common pool resource problems. To identify free riders with respect to specific FADs, we need to compare the cost expended for FAD constru…
Genetic and Cultural Kinship among the Lamaleran Whale Hunters
Kinship and Cooperation: The Axe Fight Revisited
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This research, however, cannot determine whether the uniformity results from universal patterns of human behavior or from the limited cultural variation available among the university students used in virtually all prior experimental work. To address this, we un…
The adaptive nature of culture
Some have argued that the major contribution of anthropology to science is the concept of culture. Until very recently, however, evolutionary anthropologists have largely ignored culture as a topic of study. This is perhaps because of the strange bedfellows they would have to maintain. Historically, anthropologists who claimed the focus of cultural anthropology tended to be anti‐science, anti‐biology, or both. Paradoxically, a segment of current …
Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia
Rousseau's Whale Hunt: Coordination among Big-Game Hunters
In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner's dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio-ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in joint activities and maintain agreement in their preferences for outcomes are called "coordination games" by game theorists and "mutualism" by biologists. Coordination games are common, but cooperative outcomes are not always as easy to achieve as is gen…
Mutualistic Hunting
The problems involved with living in complex social groups have emerged as important prime movers for hominid adaptation. In H. sapiens, social complexity is associated with a number of interesting traits. One of the more interesting is the cooperative large-game acquisition and the distribution of the meat resource. Sometime during the last 5 million or so years, hominids went from a chimpanzee-like subsistence pattern to one where meat was a su…
Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry
We defineanimal husbandryas prey conservation. Conservation is rare among extant hunters and only likely to occur when prey are highly valued, private goods. The long-term discounted deferred returns from husbandry must also be greater than the short-term returns from hunting. We compare the returns from hunting and husbanding strategies as a function of prey body size. Returns from husbanding are estimated using a maximum sustainable yield (MSY)…
The Potential for Sustainable Harvests by Traditional Wana Hunters in Morowali Nature Reserve, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Conflicts arise between subsistence hunters and those who wish to conserve the animals they hunt. Solutions require measures of sustainability. Data are presented on the sustainability for the Wana hunters living in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pigs (Sus celebensis) and dwarf buffalo (Bubalus spp.) account for 58 percent and 40 percent of the large game harvest by weight. Primates (Macaca tonkeana) are occasionally killed. Data s…
Evolutionary ecology and resource conservation
Evolutionary ecology and resource conservation
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Conservation by native peoples: Prey choice in a depleted habitat
Testing the ?ecologically noble savage? hypothesis: Interspecific prey choice by Piro hunters of Amazonian Peru
Rousseau's Whale Hunt: Coordination among Big-Game Hunters
In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner's dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio-ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in joint activities and maintain agreement in their preferences for outcomes are called "coordination games" by game theorists and "mutualism" by biologists. Coordination games are common, but cooperative outcomes are not always as easy to achieve as is gen…
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry
We defineanimal husbandryas prey conservation. Conservation is rare among extant hunters and only likely to occur when prey are highly valued, private goods. The long-term discounted deferred returns from husbandry must also be greater than the short-term returns from hunting. We compare the returns from hunting and husbanding strategies as a function of prey body size. Returns from husbanding are estimated using a maximum sustainable yield (MSY)…
Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia
Conservation by native peoples: Prey choice in a depleted habitat
Kinship and Cooperation: The Axe Fight Revisited
Genetic and Cultural Kinship among the Lamaleran Whale Hunters
Identifying Patch Types Using Movement Data from Artisanal Fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica
We use GPS tracking data and a machine learning approach to examine the movement of artisanal fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica during their foraging trips. The model examines track segments previously identified as resource patches by a cumulative sum method. We build on this work by using domain knowledge to train a classification and regression tree analysis to discern different patch types, including patches associated with fish aggre…
Testing the ?ecologically noble savage? hypothesis: Interspecific prey choice by Piro hunters of Amazonian Peru
Conservation by native peoples: Prey choice in a depleted habitat
Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]
Evolutionary ecology and resource conservation
Evolutionary ecology and resource conservation
The Potential for Sustainable Harvests by Traditional Wana Hunters in Morowali Nature Reserve, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Conflicts arise between subsistence hunters and those who wish to conserve the animals they hunt. Solutions require measures of sustainability. Data are presented on the sustainability for the Wana hunters living in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pigs (Sus celebensis) and dwarf buffalo (Bubalus spp.) account for 58 percent and 40 percent of the large game harvest by weight. Primates (Macaca tonkeana) are occasionally killed. Data s…
Mutualistic Hunting
The problems involved with living in complex social groups have emerged as important prime movers for hominid adaptation. In H. sapiens, social complexity is associated with a number of interesting traits. One of the more interesting is the cooperative large-game acquisition and the distribution of the meat resource. Sometime during the last 5 million or so years, hominids went from a chimpanzee-like subsistence pattern to one where meat was a su…
Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry
We defineanimal husbandryas prey conservation. Conservation is rare among extant hunters and only likely to occur when prey are highly valued, private goods. The long-term discounted deferred returns from husbandry must also be greater than the short-term returns from hunting. We compare the returns from hunting and husbanding strategies as a function of prey body size. Returns from husbanding are estimated using a maximum sustainable yield (MSY)…
Rousseau's Whale Hunt: Coordination among Big-Game Hunters
In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner's dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio-ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in joint activities and maintain agreement in their preferences for outcomes are called "coordination games" by game theorists and "mutualism" by biologists. Coordination games are common, but cooperative outcomes are not always as easy to achieve as is gen…
The adaptive nature of culture
Some have argued that the major contribution of anthropology to science is the concept of culture. Until very recently, however, evolutionary anthropologists have largely ignored culture as a topic of study. This is perhaps because of the strange bedfellows they would have to maintain. Historically, anthropologists who claimed the focus of cultural anthropology tended to be anti‐science, anti‐biology, or both. Paradoxically, a segment of current …
Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This research, however, cannot determine whether the uniformity results from universal patterns of human behavior or from the limited cultural variation available among the university students used in virtually all prior experimental work. To address this, we un…
Kinship and Cooperation: The Axe Fight Revisited
Genetic and Cultural Kinship among the Lamaleran Whale Hunters
A Method for Measuring Fishing Effort by Small-scale Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) Fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica
We used global positioning system (GPS) technology and tracking analysis to measure fishing effort by marine, small-scale, fish aggregating device (FAD) fishers of the Commonwealth of Dominica. FADs are human-made structures designed to float on the surface of the water and attract fish. They are also prone to common pool resource problems. To identify free riders with respect to specific FADs, we need to compare the cost expended for FAD constru…
Procurement Technology and Prey Mortality Among Indigenous Neotropical Hunters
This chapter discusses the predatory strategies of bow and arrow hunters with those of neighboring shotgun hunters in some native hunter-horticulturist communities in the lowland tropics of southeastern Peru. It examines how hunting strategies vary between the two technologies with respect to pursuit time and prey selection by species, age and sex. Animals are encountered by sight and/or sound, sometimes flushed by dogs if present, and for some s…
Identifying Patch Types Using Movement Data from Artisanal Fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica
We use GPS tracking data and a machine learning approach to examine the movement of artisanal fishers from the Commonwealth of Dominica during their foraging trips. The model examines track segments previously identified as resource patches by a cumulative sum method. We build on this work by using domain knowledge to train a classification and regression tree analysis to discern different patch types, including patches associated with fish aggre…
A Naturalistic Study of Norm Conformity, Punishment, and the Veneration of the Dead at Texas A&M University, USA
Food Sharing in Human Societies: Anthropological Perspectives
Biology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works)