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Michael Gurven |
| Professor of Anthropology |
| Email: gurven@anth.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: (805) 893-2202 |
| Office: HSSB 2060 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
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| Research Interests |
| Professor Gurven focuses his research in two principal areas: human social behavior and life history evolution. He has studied how members of small-scale societies organize inter-personal relations to solve salient, recurrent economic problems. This includes the sharing of food and labor among foragers and horticulturalists and different forms of assistance during periods of distress and conflict. He has published extensively on the economics of exchange and food production, and on problems of small-scale collective action, based on fieldwork the Ache of Paraguay and the Tsimane of Bolivia, two groups of South American Amazonian forager-horticulturalists.
His current research in biodemography attempts to explain extended childhood, large brains, long lives, extensive cooperation and family formation among hunter-gatherers, and implications for understanding processes of development, aging and intergenerational resource transfers across the lifespan. He also focuses on how acculturation and market integration have impacted demographic and social patterns among indigenous populations. Since 2002, Gurven has directed the Tsimane Life History and Health Project, a five-year initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health to further develop theory and test models of human life history evolution.
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- Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., Cardenas, J., Gurven, M., Gwako, L., Henrich, N., Lesorogal, C., Marlowe, F., Tracer, D., Ziker, J. 2006. Costly punishment across societies. Science 312:1767-1770.
- Gurven, M., and H. Kaplan. 2006. Determinants of time allocation to production across the lifespan among the Machiguenga and Piro Indians of Peru. Human Nature 17(1):1-49.
- Gurven, M. 2006. The evolution of contingent cooperation. Current Anthropology 47(1):185-192.
- Walker, R., Gurven, M., Hill, K., Migliano, A., Chagnon, N., Djurovic, G., Hames, R., Hurtado, AM, Kaplan, H., Oliver, W., de Souza, R., Valeggia, C., Yamauchi, T. Growth rates, developmental markers and life histories in 21 small-scale societies. 2006. American Journal of Human Biology 18:295-311.
- Gurven, M., Walker, R. 2006. Energetic demand of multiple dependents and the evolution of slow human growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 273:835-841.
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Ph.D., University of New Mexico |
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