Human Behavioral Ecology

Editors

Jeremy Koster, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Jeremy Koster is an external faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He conducts research among indigenous Nicaraguans and co-directs a collaborative project that examines the social determinants of wealth inequality. His interdisciplinary work on the behavior and demography of domestic dogs helps to advance understandings of the mechanisms for artificial selection.

Brooke Scelza, University of California, Los Angeles
Brooke Scelza is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project in Namibia, where she has been working with Himba pastoralists since 2010 to study family dynamics and reproductive decision-making. She is a former president of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society.

Mary K. Shenk, Pennsylvania State University
Mary K. Shenk is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on marriage, parental investment, and fertility in South Asia where she has conducted fieldwork since 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former President of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society.

Contributors

Eric Alden Smith, Bruce Winterhalder, Brooke Scelza, Jeremy Koster, Mary K. Shenk, Michael D. Gurven, Douglas Bird, Bram Tucker, Michael Alvard, David Nolin, Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Chris von Rueden, Paul L. Hooper, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Brooke A. Scelza, David W. Lawson, Karen L. Kramer, Rebecca Sear, Siobhán M. Mattison, Aaron Blackwell, Benjamin C. Trumble, Karthik Panchanathan, H. Clark Barrett, Richard McElreath