R J Quinlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R J Quinlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | R J |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinlan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINLAN R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8934-5643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Environmental stress and human life history strategy development in rural and peri-urban South India
Dog-Human Coevolution: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Multiple Hypotheses
Dogs' relationship with humans is pervasive and familiar, and human-dog social bonds serve multiple functions. Yet the breadth and depth of this variation is poorly understood. This study considers our coevolutionary relationship in cross-cultural context as a self-organizing system of mutual-attraction between complementary species. We analyzed Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) texts to develop three scales of dog-human relationships: dogs' util…
Children's Ethnobiological Notions of Contamination and Contagions among Maasai Agro-Pastoralists of Northern Tanzania
Humans and other living organisms harbor disease-causing pathogenic microorganisms. These microorganisms are often transmitted through physical contact with contaminated objects, such as food, water, or other people. While some theoretical and empirical research examines the ontogeny of contamination and contagion beliefs, cross-cultural research on this topic is limited. To help remedy this paucity of data, we conducted an ethnobiological study …
Medicinal foods and beverages among Maasai agro-pastoralists in northern Tanzania
Firearms Effects on Tsimane’ Hunting and Traditional Knowledge in Bolivian Amazonia
Subsistence hunting is a key activity for indigenous Amazonian people. Traditional Tsimane’ bow hunting was strongly affected by the introduction of firearms over 30 years ago. Tsimane’ of Bolivia maintain traditional hunting techniques with bows and arrows, sometimes in conjunction with modern firearms. This study explores Tsimane' perceived costs and benefits of bow- versus gun-hunting. We consider cultural conservation in addition to factors t…
Bem Viver e Ecossocioeconomias: Uma Síntese
Diante do fenômeno das mudanças climáticas, não faz sentido discutir Bem Viver (BV) subjetivamente, sem correlacioná-lo ao significado de bem comum. O objetivo é dialogar sobre o tema do Bem Viver em perspectiva intergeracional na dialética entre subjetividade e bem comum, homem-natureza, considerados como falsos binômios. Trata-se de um ensaio. O BV, mais do que condição material, socioeducacional e de saúde, é estado particular de felicidade, n…
Medical pluralism and livestock health: Ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
Variation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the cap…
Bem viver para a próxima geração: Entre Subjetividade E Bem Comum a Partir Da Perspectiva Da Ecossocioeconomia
Bem Viver (BV) é tema intrigante quando se distancia da chamada sociedade de consumo. Diante do fenômeno das mudanças climáticas, não faz sentido discutir BV subjetivamente, sem correlacioná-lo ao significado de bem comum. O objetivo é dialogar sobre o tema do BV, relevando o interesse das gerações futuras, a partir da relação dialética entre subjetividade e bem comum e da complementaridade entre a dinâmica entre ser humano e natureza. Trata-se d…
Children’s Acquisition of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Subsistence horticulturalists learn considerable local ecological knowledge by early adulthood. We investigate the relationship between children's family environments and learning of their plant environment. In a rural village in Dominica, West Indies, children of ages four through 17 (N 5 51) participated in a "plant trail" along a route containing 50 core local plants marked for identification. Plants in question resulted from village adults' f…
Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia
Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social shocks on Sidama impulsivity. We argue that impulsivity …
Ethnobiology in One Health
The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health’s multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life sci…
Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock
We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household production among Maasai people in Simanjiro, Tanzania to assess local “proximate currencies” relevant for “cultural success.” Data from mixed methods ethnographic research include qualitative interviews since 2012, observation of 85 livestock market sales in 2013 and 2015, and 37 short key informant interviews in 20…
Vulnerability and Resilience of Sidama Enset and Maize Farms in Southwestern Ethiopia
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is the traditional staple food of Sidama people who live in Rift Valley lowlands to highlands in southwest Ethiopia. Enset is drought resistant, but it matures slowly, requires substantial manure inputs from cattle, and intensive processing. Maize, introduced to Sidamaland in the mid-twentieth century, is common in midlands and lowlands. Maize matures rapidly and provides more kcal/kg than enset, but it is prone to fail…
Cooperative breeding and Aka children's nutritional status: Is flexibility key
Research suggests that nonmaternal caregivers (allomothers) offer essential assistance through caregiving and provisioning, helping to support lengthy child development. Here, we examine the role of allomothers and the broader social and sharing network on Aka forager children's anthropometrics. We hypothesize that nonmaternal investors strategically target their assistance when it is most needed and when it will have the greatest effect. We eval…
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset complex, the highland Sidama are among the most wholly reliant on enset and maintain more enset varieties in their gardens than other groups. Sidama agro-pastoral systems revolve around human-enset-cattle interaction: Sidama eat…
Resource Availability, Mortality, and Fertility: A Path Analytic Approach to Global Life-History Variation
Humans exhibit considerable diversity in timing and rate of reproduction. Life-history theory (LHT) suggests that ecological cues of resource richness and survival probabilities shape human phenotypes across populations. Populations experiencing high extrinsic mortality due to uncertainty in resources should exhibit faster life histories. Here we use a path analytic (PA) approach informed by LHT to model the multiple pathways between resources, m…
Cooperative breeding and maternal energy expenditure among aka foragers
Our results indicate that there are multiple pathways by which helpers offset maternal work/childcare trade-offs
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Competitive Altruism Explains Labor Exchange Variation in a Dominican Community
Smallholder farmers rely on labor exchange to generate agricultural work when cash is rare and credit unavailable. Reciprocal altruism, biased by genetic kinship, has been implicated as the mechanism responsible for labor exchange; however, few empirical tests confirm this proposition. Competitive altruism could be operating if people differ in ability and use this information as a criterion for partnership selection. Labor exchange data are pres…
Extrinsic Mortality Effects on Reproductive Strategies in a Caribbean Community
Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality: Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Horticulturalists
We present empirical measures of wealth inequality and its intergenerational transmission among four horticulturalist populations. Wealth is construed broadly as embodied somatic and neural capital, including body size, fertility and cultural knowledge, material capital such as land and household wealth, and relational capital in the form of coalitional support and field labor. Wealth inequality is moderate for most forms of wealth, and intergene…
Human pair‐bonds: Evolutionary functions, ecological variation, and adaptive development
Stable mating relationships are widespread in our species, with important economic, social, and reproductive implications. 1 Pair‐bonds are part of the unique human mosaic, including very large brains, childhood, concealed ovulation, sexual intercourse in private, cultural symbols, and complex social groups. Yet we understand relatively little about the evolution of human pairing, its functions, and consequences for human diversity. We can define…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies II
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Kinship, Family, and Gender Effects in the Ultimatum Game
Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted by individuals. All six predictors are associated wi…
Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality: Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Horticulturalists
We present empirical measures of wealth inequality and its intergenerational transmission among four horticulturalist populations. Wealth is construed broadly as embodied somatic and neural capital, including body size, fertility and cultural knowledge, material capital such as land and household wealth, and relational capital in the form of coalitional support and field labor. Wealth inequality is moderate for most forms of wealth, and intergene…
Gender and Risk in a Matrifocal Caribbean Community: A View from Behavioral Ecology
Matrifocality is a feature of Caribbean communities in which mothers and adult daughters often form the household core. I argue that daughter-biased parental care underlies matrifocality. Parental investment (PI) theory predicts sex-biased care, but factors promoting daughter preference are not always clearly specified. If sons are more likely than daughters to experience unpredictable hazards, then parents may bias their efforts toward daughters…
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Human pair‐bonds: Evolutionary functions, ecological variation, and adaptive development
Stable mating relationships are widespread in our species, with important economic, social, and reproductive implications. 1 Pair‐bonds are part of the unique human mosaic, including very large brains, childhood, concealed ovulation, sexual intercourse in private, cultural symbols, and complex social groups. Yet we understand relatively little about the evolution of human pairing, its functions, and consequences for human diversity. We can define…
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Parenting and Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression, and Witchcraft
Parenting behavior may respond flexibly to environmental risk to help prepare children for the environment they can expect to face as adults. In hazardous environments where child outcomes are unpredictable, unresponsive parenting could be adaptive. Child development associated with parenting practices, in turn, may influence cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression (which we call the "risk-response model"). We test these propositio…
Competitive Altruism Explains Labor Exchange Variation in a Dominican Community
Smallholder farmers rely on labor exchange to generate agricultural work when cash is rare and credit unavailable. Reciprocal altruism, biased by genetic kinship, has been implicated as the mechanism responsible for labor exchange; however, few empirical tests confirm this proposition. Competitive altruism could be operating if people differ in ability and use this information as a criterion for partnership selection. Labor exchange data are pres…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Cooperative breeding and Aka children's nutritional status: Is flexibility key
Research suggests that nonmaternal caregivers (allomothers) offer essential assistance through caregiving and provisioning, helping to support lengthy child development. Here, we examine the role of allomothers and the broader social and sharing network on Aka forager children's anthropometrics. We hypothesize that nonmaternal investors strategically target their assistance when it is most needed and when it will have the greatest effect. We eval…
Extrinsic Mortality Effects on Reproductive Strategies in a Caribbean Community
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds: Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
Human pair-bonds may have multiple evolved functions. One long-standing hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds evolved for male provisioning. Alternatively pair-bonds may occur as a response to male mating competition when benefits of staying with a current mate outweigh costs of seeking new mates. A third hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds function to protect against infanticide by aggressive males. Tests of these hypotheses used data from the Sta…
Intergenerational Transmission of Conjugal Stability in a Caribbean Community
Some evolutionary models of human behavior posit that father-absence during early childhood influences subsequent adult reproductive strategies. We compare evidence for intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in Western industrial populations with multigeneration patterns of conjugal stability in a rural Caribbean community. Genealogies (N=8O3) and behavioral data for a Caribbean community suggest that father-absence during early chi…
Effect of household structure on female reproductive strategies in a Caribbean village
Kinship, Family, and Gender Effects in the Ultimatum Game
Medical pluralism and livestock health: Ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists
Variation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the cap…
Ethnobiology in One Health
The new One Health concept is, essentially, the ethnobiology of health, addressing the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health. Incited by 2003 outbreaks of animal-borne SARS and avian influenza, One Health’s multidisciplinary perspective complements growing international support for interdisciplinary research and health equity. One Health needs researchers able to integrate social and cultural factors into health-related life sci…
New Genealogy: It's Not Just for Kinship Anymore
Genealogy has been a pillar of anthropological research since the earliest ethnographic fieldwork. A turn toward demographically and quantitatively oriented kinship studies in the 1960s highlighted the need for more systematic genealogical methods. New computer-assisted, iterative field methods were developed in response. These methods can dramatically improve data quality and quantity and are remarkably flexible. Here, the authors outline an ite…
Culture and Psychological Responses to Environmental Shocks: Cultural Ecology of Sidama Impulsivity and Niche Construction in Southwest Ethiopia
Sidama people occupy a subsistence niche partitioned between traditional enset agropastoralism and transitional maize farming. Enset production is low risk and requires multiple years for cultivation and processing. Maize farming is high risk and high yield, requiring one growing season from planting to harvest. Contrasting enset and maize farming, we examine effects of crop loss and social shocks on Sidama impulsivity. We argue that impulsivity …
Firearms Effects on Tsimane’ Hunting and Traditional Knowledge in Bolivian Amazonia
Subsistence hunting is a key activity for indigenous Amazonian people. Traditional Tsimane’ bow hunting was strongly affected by the introduction of firearms over 30 years ago. Tsimane’ of Bolivia maintain traditional hunting techniques with bows and arrows, sometimes in conjunction with modern firearms. This study explores Tsimane' perceived costs and benefits of bow- versus gun-hunting. We consider cultural conservation in addition to factors t…
Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock
We examine metabolic, market, and symbolic values of livestock relative to cultural “positioning” by gender, marriage, and household production among Maasai people in Simanjiro, Tanzania to assess local “proximate currencies” relevant for “cultural success.” Data from mixed methods ethnographic research include qualitative interviews since 2012, observation of 85 livestock market sales in 2013 and 2015, and 37 short key informant interviews in 20…
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Bem viver para a próxima geração: Entre Subjetividade E Bem Comum a Partir Da Perspectiva Da Ecossocioeconomia
Bem Viver (BV) é tema intrigante quando se distancia da chamada sociedade de consumo. Diante do fenômeno das mudanças climáticas, não faz sentido discutir BV subjetivamente, sem correlacioná-lo ao significado de bem comum. O objetivo é dialogar sobre o tema do BV, relevando o interesse das gerações futuras, a partir da relação dialética entre subjetividade e bem comum e da complementaridade entre a dinâmica entre ser humano e natureza. Trata-se d…
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset complex, the highland Sidama are among the most wholly reliant on enset and maintain more enset varieties in their gardens than other groups. Sidama agro-pastoral systems revolve around human-enset-cattle interaction: Sidama eat…
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Effect of household structure on female reproductive strategies in a Caribbean village
Ethnophysiology and herbal treatments of intestinal worms in Dominica, West Indies
Parental investment and age at weaning in a Caribbean village
Father absence, parental care, and female reproductive development
Intergenerational Transmission of Conjugal Stability in a Caribbean Community
Some evolutionary models of human behavior posit that father-absence during early childhood influences subsequent adult reproductive strategies. We compare evidence for intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in Western industrial populations with multigeneration patterns of conjugal stability in a rural Caribbean community. Genealogies (N=8O3) and behavioral data for a Caribbean community suggest that father-absence during early chi…
Kinship, Gender & Migration from a Rural Caribbean Community
Emigration from developing countries may be influenced by kinship, which has different effects on men and women. A strong family at home may inhibit migration, and kin living abroad may encourage it. This study examines effects of kin on odds of migration for men (N=200) and women (N=220) from a rural community in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Multiple logistic regression showed that women were more likely than men to migrate. Number of matrilate…
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Gender and Risk in a Matrifocal Caribbean Community: A View from Behavioral Ecology
Matrifocality is a feature of Caribbean communities in which mothers and adult daughters often form the household core. I argue that daughter-biased parental care underlies matrifocality. Parental investment (PI) theory predicts sex-biased care, but factors promoting daughter preference are not always clearly specified. If sons are more likely than daughters to experience unpredictable hazards, then parents may bias their efforts toward daughters…
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds: Cross-Cultural Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
Human pair-bonds may have multiple evolved functions. One long-standing hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds evolved for male provisioning. Alternatively pair-bonds may occur as a response to male mating competition when benefits of staying with a current mate outweigh costs of seeking new mates. A third hypothesis suggests that pair-bonds function to protect against infanticide by aggressive males. Tests of these hypotheses used data from the Sta…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies
Modernization and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
Herbal medicine is the first response to illness in rural Dominica. Every adult knows several "bush" medicines, and knowledge varies from person to person. Anthropological convention suggests that modernization generally weakens traditional knowledge. We examine the effects of commercial occupation, consumerism, education, parenthood, age, and gender on the number of medicinal plants freelisted by individuals. All six predictors are associated wi…
Parenting and Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression, and Witchcraft
Parenting behavior may respond flexibly to environmental risk to help prepare children for the environment they can expect to face as adults. In hazardous environments where child outcomes are unpredictable, unresponsive parenting could be adaptive. Child development associated with parenting practices, in turn, may influence cultural patterns related to insecurity and aggression (which we call the "risk-response model"). We test these propositio…
Human pair‐bonds: Evolutionary functions, ecological variation, and adaptive development
Stable mating relationships are widespread in our species, with important economic, social, and reproductive implications. 1 Pair‐bonds are part of the unique human mosaic, including very large brains, childhood, concealed ovulation, sexual intercourse in private, cultural symbols, and complex social groups. Yet we understand relatively little about the evolution of human pairing, its functions, and consequences for human diversity. We can define…
Cross-Cultural Analysis in Evolution and Human Behavior Studies II
Human Lactation, Pair-bonds, and Alloparents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Kinship, Family, and Gender Effects in the Ultimatum Game
New Genealogy: It's Not Just for Kinship Anymore
Genealogy has been a pillar of anthropological research since the earliest ethnographic fieldwork. A turn toward demographically and quantitatively oriented kinship studies in the 1960s highlighted the need for more systematic genealogical methods. New computer-assisted, iterative field methods were developed in response. These methods can dramatically improve data quality and quantity and are remarkably flexible. Here, the authors outline an ite…
Extrinsic Mortality Effects on Reproductive Strategies in a Caribbean Community
Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality: Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Horticulturalists
We present empirical measures of wealth inequality and its intergenerational transmission among four horticulturalist populations. Wealth is construed broadly as embodied somatic and neural capital, including body size, fertility and cultural knowledge, material capital such as land and household wealth, and relational capital in the form of coalitional support and field labor. Wealth inequality is moderate for most forms of wealth, and intergene…
Resource Availability, Mortality, and Fertility: A Path Analytic Approach to Global Life-History Variation
Humans exhibit considerable diversity in timing and rate of reproduction. Life-history theory (LHT) suggests that ecological cues of resource richness and survival probabilities shape human phenotypes across populations. Populations experiencing high extrinsic mortality due to uncertainty in resources should exhibit faster life histories. Here we use a path analytic (PA) approach informed by LHT to model the multiple pathways between resources, m…
Cooperative breeding and maternal energy expenditure among aka foragers
Our results indicate that there are multiple pathways by which helpers offset maternal work/childcare trade-offs
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Biology (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Geography (16 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 works) · Economics (10 works)