Jeffrey Winking
Biographic Data
| ID | 83506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Winking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Winking |
| SIGNATURE | WINKING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2298-3680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From hunters to grandmothers: How gender colors our interpretations
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution
Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche
The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, often packaged under either the Social Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes the role that the evolution of our social systems may have played in scaffolding our cognitive traits, and the Foraging Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes how changes in the human …
Timing, Initiators, and Causes of Divorce in a Mayangna/Miskito Community in Nicaragua
There exists a paucity of evolution-oriented research focusing on why relationships end, particularly in comparison to the substantial literature centered around individual preferences that define the beginning of relationships. In contrast, there is a long tradition in the fields of sociology and family studies of exploring divorce; however, this body of research is largely limited to studies of Western populations. We address these gaps in the …
Arm-Swinging in the Red-Shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus): Implications of Body Mass
Science as a Public Good: Findings From a Survey of March for Science Participants
On April 22, 2017, millions of people marched for science in response to a growing sense of urgency for preserving scientific funding and knowledge, both perceived as threatened by the Trump administration. This research note highlights data collected at three marches: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, California; and Austin, Texas. We examine marcher motivations for participation, finding the environment, current administration, and science funding…
Applicability of the Investment Model Scale in a natural-fertility population
Relationship quality is a construct that is central to theories of relationships and one that is used widely by psychologists. However, all prior assessments of relationship quality have derived from samples living in industrialized nation states. Here, the authors expand the breadth of this cultural variation to examine the means, reliability, and structure of the Investment Model Scale (IMS) in a sample from a natural-fertility, subsistence-lev…
Child Mortality
The Fitness Effects of Men's Family Investments: A Test of Three Pathways in a Single Population
Natural-field dictator game shows no altruistic giving
Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager–farmers: Testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict
Infant growth and the thymus: Data from two South American native societies
The thymus plays an important role in the development of the immune system, yet little is known about the patterns and sources of variation in postnatal thymic development. The aim of this study is to contribute cross‐cultural data on thymus size in infants from two South American native populations, the Tsimane of Bolivia and the Pumé of Venezuela. Thymic ultrasonography was performed and standard anthropometric measures collected from 86 Tsiman…
Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life‐Course in the Bolivian Amazon
This work explores sources of conflict among forager‐horticulturalist women in A mazonian B olivia, and applies life history theory as a tool for understanding competitive and cooperative social networking behaviors among women. In this study, 121 T simane women and girls were interviewed regarding current and past disagreements with others in their community to identify categories of contested resources that instigate interpersonal conflicts, of…
Father death and adult success among the Tsimane: Implications for marriage and divorce
Spousal violence and paternal disinvestment among Tsimane' forager‐horticulturalists
OBJECTIVES: We develop and test a conceptual model of factors influencing the likelihood of physical wife abuse. The paternal disinvestment model emphasizes that spousal conflict over resource use results from men's attempts to increase individual fitness at a cost to the family (e.g., through pursuit of extramarital affairs). We propose that men use violence to control women's responses to the diversion of resources away from the family: to quel…
The total cost of father desertion
Objectives: The benefits of paternal investment have long been explored by assessing the impact of father's presence on child wellbeing. Previous studies, however, have only examined the average effect of father's presence on child survivorship. Here we assess the total fitness cost to men of deserting (or the benefit of staying), by considering effects on the entire progeny. We estimate the total number of children that a deserting father can ex…
The Impact of Parents and Self-Selection on Child Survival among the Tsimane of Bolivia
The impact of the parental investment provided by a mother or father on the well-being of a child depends on many factors. The effect of fathers is of particular theoretical interest, as there has been considerable debate concerning the importance of fathers in the evolution of our species and of our reproductive strategies involving long-term pair bonds and biparental care. A common strategy for investigating the impact that parents have on chil…
Blood lipids, infection, and inflammatory markers in the Tsimane of Bolivia
Objectives: Little is known about blood cholesterol (blood‐C) levels under conditions of infection and limited diet. This study examines blood‐C and markers of infection and inflammation in the Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon, indigenous forager farmers living in conditions that model preindustrial European populations by their short life expectancy, high load of infections and inflammation, and limited diets. Methods: We use multivariate models t…
The Social Strategy Game: Resource Competition within Female Social Networks among Small-scale Forager-Horticulturalists
The goals of direct paternal care among a South Amerindian population
Human males are remarkable among mammals in the level of investment they provide to their wives and children. However, there has been debate as to the degree to which men actually invest and through which fitness pathways the benefits of familial investment are realized. Much of the previous research exploring these issues has focused on men's roles as providers, but few have explored correlates of men's direct parental care. Although this is rea…
A Bioeconomic Approach to Marriage and the Sexual Division of Labor
Children may be viewed as public goods whereby both parents receive equal genetic benefits yet one parent often invests more heavily than the other. We introduce a microeconomic framework for understanding household investment decisions to address questions concerning conflicts of interest over types and amount of work effort among married men and women. Although gains and costs of marriage may not be spread equally among marriage partners, marri…
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory
Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the "real world." To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find…
Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia
Are men really that bad as fathers? The role of men's investments
Human pair-bonding and paternal involvement have long been attributed to the need for biparental rearing of altricial offspring with extended periods of dependency. More recently, researchers have focused on the fertility benefits that pair-bonding offers men and have re-conceptualized paternal care as a stratagem designed to curry favor with the recipient children's mother. These models, however, fail to explain a number of puzzling empirical fi…
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory
Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the "real world." To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find…
A Bioeconomic Approach to Marriage and the Sexual Division of Labor
Children may be viewed as public goods whereby both parents receive equal genetic benefits yet one parent often invests more heavily than the other. We introduce a microeconomic framework for understanding household investment decisions to address questions concerning conflicts of interest over types and amount of work effort among married men and women. Although gains and costs of marriage may not be spread equally among marriage partners, marri…
The goals of direct paternal care among a South Amerindian population
Human males are remarkable among mammals in the level of investment they provide to their wives and children. However, there has been debate as to the degree to which men actually invest and through which fitness pathways the benefits of familial investment are realized. Much of the previous research exploring these issues has focused on men's roles as providers, but few have explored correlates of men's direct parental care. Although this is rea…
The Fitness Effects of Men's Family Investments: A Test of Three Pathways in a Single Population
The Impact of Parents and Self-Selection on Child Survival among the Tsimane of Bolivia
The impact of the parental investment provided by a mother or father on the well-being of a child depends on many factors. The effect of fathers is of particular theoretical interest, as there has been considerable debate concerning the importance of fathers in the evolution of our species and of our reproductive strategies involving long-term pair bonds and biparental care. A common strategy for investigating the impact that parents have on chil…
The Social Strategy Game: Resource Competition within Female Social Networks among Small-scale Forager-Horticulturalists
Applicability of the Investment Model Scale in a natural-fertility population
Relationship quality is a construct that is central to theories of relationships and one that is used widely by psychologists. However, all prior assessments of relationship quality have derived from samples living in industrialized nation states. Here, the authors expand the breadth of this cultural variation to examine the means, reliability, and structure of the Investment Model Scale (IMS) in a sample from a natural-fertility, subsistence-lev…
Arm-Swinging in the Red-Shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus): Implications of Body Mass
Science as a Public Good: Findings From a Survey of March for Science Participants
On April 22, 2017, millions of people marched for science in response to a growing sense of urgency for preserving scientific funding and knowledge, both perceived as threatened by the Trump administration. This research note highlights data collected at three marches: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, California; and Austin, Texas. We examine marcher motivations for participation, finding the environment, current administration, and science funding…
Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life‐Course in the Bolivian Amazon
This work explores sources of conflict among forager‐horticulturalist women in A mazonian B olivia, and applies life history theory as a tool for understanding competitive and cooperative social networking behaviors among women. In this study, 121 T simane women and girls were interviewed regarding current and past disagreements with others in their community to identify categories of contested resources that instigate interpersonal conflicts, of…
Timing, Initiators, and Causes of Divorce in a Mayangna/Miskito Community in Nicaragua
There exists a paucity of evolution-oriented research focusing on why relationships end, particularly in comparison to the substantial literature centered around individual preferences that define the beginning of relationships. In contrast, there is a long tradition in the fields of sociology and family studies of exploring divorce; however, this body of research is largely limited to studies of Western populations. We address these gaps in the …
Are men really that bad as fathers? The role of men's investments
Human pair-bonding and paternal involvement have long been attributed to the need for biparental rearing of altricial offspring with extended periods of dependency. More recently, researchers have focused on the fertility benefits that pair-bonding offers men and have re-conceptualized paternal care as a stratagem designed to curry favor with the recipient children's mother. These models, however, fail to explain a number of puzzling empirical fi…
Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia
Are men really that bad as fathers? The role of men's investments
Human pair-bonding and paternal involvement have long been attributed to the need for biparental rearing of altricial offspring with extended periods of dependency. More recently, researchers have focused on the fertility benefits that pair-bonding offers men and have re-conceptualized paternal care as a stratagem designed to curry favor with the recipient children's mother. These models, however, fail to explain a number of puzzling empirical fi…
Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory
Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the "real world." To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia. We find…
The goals of direct paternal care among a South Amerindian population
Human males are remarkable among mammals in the level of investment they provide to their wives and children. However, there has been debate as to the degree to which men actually invest and through which fitness pathways the benefits of familial investment are realized. Much of the previous research exploring these issues has focused on men's roles as providers, but few have explored correlates of men's direct parental care. Although this is rea…
A Bioeconomic Approach to Marriage and the Sexual Division of Labor
Children may be viewed as public goods whereby both parents receive equal genetic benefits yet one parent often invests more heavily than the other. We introduce a microeconomic framework for understanding household investment decisions to address questions concerning conflicts of interest over types and amount of work effort among married men and women. Although gains and costs of marriage may not be spread equally among marriage partners, marri…
Blood lipids, infection, and inflammatory markers in the Tsimane of Bolivia
Objectives: Little is known about blood cholesterol (blood‐C) levels under conditions of infection and limited diet. This study examines blood‐C and markers of infection and inflammation in the Tsimane of the Bolivian Amazon, indigenous forager farmers living in conditions that model preindustrial European populations by their short life expectancy, high load of infections and inflammation, and limited diets. Methods: We use multivariate models t…
The Social Strategy Game: Resource Competition within Female Social Networks among Small-scale Forager-Horticulturalists
Father death and adult success among the Tsimane: Implications for marriage and divorce
Spousal violence and paternal disinvestment among Tsimane' forager‐horticulturalists
OBJECTIVES: We develop and test a conceptual model of factors influencing the likelihood of physical wife abuse. The paternal disinvestment model emphasizes that spousal conflict over resource use results from men's attempts to increase individual fitness at a cost to the family (e.g., through pursuit of extramarital affairs). We propose that men use violence to control women's responses to the diversion of resources away from the family: to quel…
The total cost of father desertion
Objectives: The benefits of paternal investment have long been explored by assessing the impact of father's presence on child wellbeing. Previous studies, however, have only examined the average effect of father's presence on child survivorship. Here we assess the total fitness cost to men of deserting (or the benefit of staying), by considering effects on the entire progeny. We estimate the total number of children that a deserting father can ex…
The Impact of Parents and Self-Selection on Child Survival among the Tsimane of Bolivia
The impact of the parental investment provided by a mother or father on the well-being of a child depends on many factors. The effect of fathers is of particular theoretical interest, as there has been considerable debate concerning the importance of fathers in the evolution of our species and of our reproductive strategies involving long-term pair bonds and biparental care. A common strategy for investigating the impact that parents have on chil…
Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager–farmers: Testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict
Infant growth and the thymus: Data from two South American native societies
The thymus plays an important role in the development of the immune system, yet little is known about the patterns and sources of variation in postnatal thymic development. The aim of this study is to contribute cross‐cultural data on thymus size in infants from two South American native populations, the Tsimane of Bolivia and the Pumé of Venezuela. Thymic ultrasonography was performed and standard anthropometric measures collected from 86 Tsiman…
Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life‐Course in the Bolivian Amazon
This work explores sources of conflict among forager‐horticulturalist women in A mazonian B olivia, and applies life history theory as a tool for understanding competitive and cooperative social networking behaviors among women. In this study, 121 T simane women and girls were interviewed regarding current and past disagreements with others in their community to identify categories of contested resources that instigate interpersonal conflicts, of…
Natural-field dictator game shows no altruistic giving
The Fitness Effects of Men's Family Investments: A Test of Three Pathways in a Single Population
Child Mortality
Science as a Public Good: Findings From a Survey of March for Science Participants
On April 22, 2017, millions of people marched for science in response to a growing sense of urgency for preserving scientific funding and knowledge, both perceived as threatened by the Trump administration. This research note highlights data collected at three marches: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles, California; and Austin, Texas. We examine marcher motivations for participation, finding the environment, current administration, and science funding…
Applicability of the Investment Model Scale in a natural-fertility population
Relationship quality is a construct that is central to theories of relationships and one that is used widely by psychologists. However, all prior assessments of relationship quality have derived from samples living in industrialized nation states. Here, the authors expand the breadth of this cultural variation to examine the means, reliability, and structure of the Investment Model Scale (IMS) in a sample from a natural-fertility, subsistence-lev…
Arm-Swinging in the Red-Shanked Douc (Pygathrix nemaeus): Implications of Body Mass
Timing, Initiators, and Causes of Divorce in a Mayangna/Miskito Community in Nicaragua
There exists a paucity of evolution-oriented research focusing on why relationships end, particularly in comparison to the substantial literature centered around individual preferences that define the beginning of relationships. In contrast, there is a long tradition in the fields of sociology and family studies of exploring divorce; however, this body of research is largely limited to studies of Western populations. We address these gaps in the …
Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche
The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution, often packaged under either the Social Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes the role that the evolution of our social systems may have played in scaffolding our cognitive traits, and the Foraging Brain Hypothesis, which emphasizes how changes in the human …
From hunters to grandmothers: How gender colors our interpretations
Androcentric emphases continue to impact depictions of gendered contributions to human evolution
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