Mark N Grote
Biographic Data
| ID | 76508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark N Grote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark N |
| FAMILY NAME | Grote |
| SIGNATURE | GROTE M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9031-8631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
An Increase in Small Flake Sharp-edge Productivity Across the Initial–Early Upper Paleolithic at Tolbor (Mongolia)
The Upper Paleolithic archaeological record of the Tolbor Valley (northern Mongolia) documents a shift in emphasis from large-blade production to smaller-format bladelet production, characteristic of the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) to Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) transition in Central and Northeast Asia. This periodization is often associated with, respectively, early dispersal and permanent instalment of Homo sapiens populations in eastern …
Population-level effects of education and material conditions on religious change in Chiapas, Mexico
Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa
Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global demographic shifts such as the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic and more recently the urbanization and globalization of the twentieth century have been major catalysts for cultural change. Here, we test whether cultural traits such as patri/matrilocality and postmarital migration…
Impact of a recent wildfire on tortoises at Cape Point, South Africa, and implications for the interpretation of heated bones in the archaeological record
Heat-altered bones are a common occurrence in the archaeological record, and their analysis can provide detailed insights into past fire use behaviors and subsistence strategies. Heat-altered bones, however, may also result from natural fire events such as wildfires that are unrelated to human activity. We currently lack robust reference materials from natural fire events, analyzed using the same methodological approaches as we apply them to arch…
How community forest management performs when Redd+ payments fail
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: Mixed Methods and Multiple Measures of Fishing Behavior with Implications for External Validity
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…
What causes differences in fracture rates of silcrete during heat treatment? A near-infrared study of water-related transformations in South African silcretes
Discussions of heat treatment in the southern African Middle Stone Age often focus on the importance of this innovation to the development of complex technologies and the evolution of modern human cognition. Debates regarding the context of silcrete heat treatment typically include the amount of time and resource investment needed, and when the earliest occurrences of heat treatment appear in the archaeological record. However, silcrete is a hete…
Increased terrestriality in a Neotropical primate living on islands with reduced predation risk
An arboreal lifestyle is thought to be central to primate origins, and most extant primate species still live in the trees. Nonetheless, terrestrial locomotion is a widespread adaptation that has arisen repeatedly within the primate lineage. The absence of terrestriality among the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) is thus notable and raises questions about the ecological pressures that constrain the expansion of platyrrhines into terrestrial niches…
A mixed model for the relationship between climate and human cranial form
OBJECTIVES: We expand upon a multivariate mixed model from quantitative genetics in order to estimate the magnitude of climate effects in a global sample of recent human crania. In humans, genetic distances are correlated with distances based on cranial form, suggesting that population structure influences both genetic and quantitative trait variation. Studies controlling for this structure have demonstrated significant underlying associations of…
Marginal value theorem, patch choice, and human foraging response in varying environments
Partner choice decision making and the integration of multiple cues
Offspring of primiparous mothers do not experience greater mortality or poorer growth: Revisiting the conventional wisdom with archival records of Rhesus Macaques
Female mammals often begin to reproduce before achieving somatic maturity and therefore face tradeoffs between allocating energy to reproduction or their own continued development. Constraints on primiparous females are associated with greater reproductive failure, and first-born infants often have slower growth and greater mortality and morbidity than infants born to multiparous females. Effects of early life investment may persist even after we…
Population and Environmental Correlates of Maize Yields in Mesoamerica: A Test of Boserup's Hypothesis in the Milpa
Factors increasing snake detection and perceived threat in captive rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta )
The primary predators of primates are all ambush hunters, and yet felids, raptors, and snakes differ in aspects of their ecology that affect the evasive strategies of their primate prey. Felids and raptors can traverse long distances quickly, thus the urgency of threat they present increases as they come closer in proximity to primates. In contrast, snakes do not move rapidly over long distances, and so primates may be reasonably safe even at clo…
A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1
Effects on Household Labor of Temporary Out-migration by Male Household Heads in Nicaragua and Peru: An Analysis of Spot-check Time Allocation Data Using Mixed-effects Models
Estimating age from adult occlusal wear: A modification of the miles method
The Miles method of age estimation relies on molar wear to estimate age and is widely used in bioarcheological contexts. However, because the method requires physical seriation and a sample of subadults to estimate wear rates it cannot be applied to many samples. Here, we modify the Miles method by scoring occlusal wear and estimating molar wear rates from adult wear gradients in 311 hunter‐gatherers and provide formulae to estimate the error ass…
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Color Vision Variation and Foraging Behavior in Wild Neotropical Titi Monkeys (Callicebus brunneus): Possible Mediating Roles for Spatial Memory and Reproductive Status
Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands
Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations
Effects on Household Labor of Temporary Out-migration by Male Household Heads in Nicaragua and Peru: An Analysis of Spot-check Time Allocation Data Using Mixed-effects Models
A mixed model for the relationship between climate and human cranial form
OBJECTIVES: We expand upon a multivariate mixed model from quantitative genetics in order to estimate the magnitude of climate effects in a global sample of recent human crania. In humans, genetic distances are correlated with distances based on cranial form, suggesting that population structure influences both genetic and quantitative trait variation. Studies controlling for this structure have demonstrated significant underlying associations of…
Marginal value theorem, patch choice, and human foraging response in varying environments
Estimating age from adult occlusal wear: A modification of the miles method
The Miles method of age estimation relies on molar wear to estimate age and is widely used in bioarcheological contexts. However, because the method requires physical seriation and a sample of subadults to estimate wear rates it cannot be applied to many samples. Here, we modify the Miles method by scoring occlusal wear and estimating molar wear rates from adult wear gradients in 311 hunter‐gatherers and provide formulae to estimate the error ass…
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations
Impact of a recent wildfire on tortoises at Cape Point, South Africa, and implications for the interpretation of heated bones in the archaeological record
Heat-altered bones are a common occurrence in the archaeological record, and their analysis can provide detailed insights into past fire use behaviors and subsistence strategies. Heat-altered bones, however, may also result from natural fire events such as wildfires that are unrelated to human activity. We currently lack robust reference materials from natural fire events, analyzed using the same methodological approaches as we apply them to arch…
Increased terrestriality in a Neotropical primate living on islands with reduced predation risk
An arboreal lifestyle is thought to be central to primate origins, and most extant primate species still live in the trees. Nonetheless, terrestrial locomotion is a widespread adaptation that has arisen repeatedly within the primate lineage. The absence of terrestriality among the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) is thus notable and raises questions about the ecological pressures that constrain the expansion of platyrrhines into terrestrial niches…
A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1
Color Vision Variation and Foraging Behavior in Wild Neotropical Titi Monkeys (Callicebus brunneus): Possible Mediating Roles for Spatial Memory and Reproductive Status
Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations
Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands
Color Vision Variation and Foraging Behavior in Wild Neotropical Titi Monkeys (Callicebus brunneus): Possible Mediating Roles for Spatial Memory and Reproductive Status
Estimating age from adult occlusal wear: A modification of the miles method
The Miles method of age estimation relies on molar wear to estimate age and is widely used in bioarcheological contexts. However, because the method requires physical seriation and a sample of subadults to estimate wear rates it cannot be applied to many samples. Here, we modify the Miles method by scoring occlusal wear and estimating molar wear rates from adult wear gradients in 311 hunter‐gatherers and provide formulae to estimate the error ass…
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Effects on Household Labor of Temporary Out-migration by Male Household Heads in Nicaragua and Peru: An Analysis of Spot-check Time Allocation Data Using Mixed-effects Models
Factors increasing snake detection and perceived threat in captive rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta )
The primary predators of primates are all ambush hunters, and yet felids, raptors, and snakes differ in aspects of their ecology that affect the evasive strategies of their primate prey. Felids and raptors can traverse long distances quickly, thus the urgency of threat they present increases as they come closer in proximity to primates. In contrast, snakes do not move rapidly over long distances, and so primates may be reasonably safe even at clo…
A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1
Partner choice decision making and the integration of multiple cues
Offspring of primiparous mothers do not experience greater mortality or poorer growth: Revisiting the conventional wisdom with archival records of Rhesus Macaques
Female mammals often begin to reproduce before achieving somatic maturity and therefore face tradeoffs between allocating energy to reproduction or their own continued development. Constraints on primiparous females are associated with greater reproductive failure, and first-born infants often have slower growth and greater mortality and morbidity than infants born to multiparous females. Effects of early life investment may persist even after we…
Population and Environmental Correlates of Maize Yields in Mesoamerica: A Test of Boserup's Hypothesis in the Milpa
A mixed model for the relationship between climate and human cranial form
OBJECTIVES: We expand upon a multivariate mixed model from quantitative genetics in order to estimate the magnitude of climate effects in a global sample of recent human crania. In humans, genetic distances are correlated with distances based on cranial form, suggesting that population structure influences both genetic and quantitative trait variation. Studies controlling for this structure have demonstrated significant underlying associations of…
Marginal value theorem, patch choice, and human foraging response in varying environments
Increased terrestriality in a Neotropical primate living on islands with reduced predation risk
An arboreal lifestyle is thought to be central to primate origins, and most extant primate species still live in the trees. Nonetheless, terrestrial locomotion is a widespread adaptation that has arisen repeatedly within the primate lineage. The absence of terrestriality among the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) is thus notable and raises questions about the ecological pressures that constrain the expansion of platyrrhines into terrestrial niches…
What causes differences in fracture rates of silcrete during heat treatment? A near-infrared study of water-related transformations in South African silcretes
Discussions of heat treatment in the southern African Middle Stone Age often focus on the importance of this innovation to the development of complex technologies and the evolution of modern human cognition. Debates regarding the context of silcrete heat treatment typically include the amount of time and resource investment needed, and when the earliest occurrences of heat treatment appear in the archaeological record. However, silcrete is a hete…
How community forest management performs when Redd+ payments fail
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: Mixed Methods and Multiple Measures of Fishing Behavior with Implications for External Validity
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…
Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa
Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global demographic shifts such as the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic and more recently the urbanization and globalization of the twentieth century have been major catalysts for cultural change. Here, we test whether cultural traits such as patri/matrilocality and postmarital migration…
Impact of a recent wildfire on tortoises at Cape Point, South Africa, and implications for the interpretation of heated bones in the archaeological record
Heat-altered bones are a common occurrence in the archaeological record, and their analysis can provide detailed insights into past fire use behaviors and subsistence strategies. Heat-altered bones, however, may also result from natural fire events such as wildfires that are unrelated to human activity. We currently lack robust reference materials from natural fire events, analyzed using the same methodological approaches as we apply them to arch…
Population-level effects of education and material conditions on religious change in Chiapas, Mexico
An Increase in Small Flake Sharp-edge Productivity Across the Initial–Early Upper Paleolithic at Tolbor (Mongolia)
The Upper Paleolithic archaeological record of the Tolbor Valley (northern Mongolia) documents a shift in emphasis from large-blade production to smaller-format bladelet production, characteristic of the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) to Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) transition in Central and Northeast Asia. This periodization is often associated with, respectively, early dispersal and permanent instalment of Homo sapiens populations in eastern …
Geography (14 works) · Biology (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)