STEVEN J. C. GAULIN


Department of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA 93106-3210
805-893-7402
gaulin@anth.ucsb.edu



Education
  • B.A. with honors, University of California, Berkeley. Majors in Anthropology and Psychology, June 1972
  • Ph.D., Harvard University. Physical Anthropology, January 1978.

Professional Experience
  • 1978-1983 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1984-1992 Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1987-1998 Member, Board of Directors, Human Relations Area Files
  • 1992-2003 Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1996-1998 Secretary, Human Relations Area Files
  • 1998 Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
  • 1998-2003 Resident Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburg
  • 2000-2003 Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2002- CoEditor-in-Chief, Evolution and Human Behavior (Elsevier)
  • 2003- Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Awards for Study and Research
  • 1975-1977 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant
  • 1976-1977 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant
  • 1982-1983 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant
  • 1985-1987 National Science Foundation Research Grant
  • 1988-1989 National Science Foundation Research Grant
  • 1989-1991 National Science Foundation Fellowship
  • 1990-1992 National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant
  • 1994-1995 A.W.Mellon Foundation/Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Grant
  • 1998 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Australia
  • 2002-2003 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, RAC Grant

Research Interests
  • Evolutionary, developmental, and neurological bases of spatial cognition
  • Immunological and phenotypic bases of attraction
  • Effects of mate choice on infant health and immune competence
  • Kin-biased behavior
  • Sexual dimorphism

Teaching Focus
  • Evolutionary psychology; physical anthropology; primate behavior; sexual selection.

Publications: Books (also appear in chronological listing)
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and D. H. McBurney (2001) Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and D. H. McBurney (2004) Evolutionary Psychology (new title for second edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (in press).
Publications: Chronological Listing
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. A. Kurland (1976) "Primate predation and bioenergetics." Science, 191: 314315.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and M. J. Konner (1977) "On the natural diet of primates, including humans." In R. Wurtman and J. Wurtman, eds. Nutrition and the Brain, Vol. 1 pp. 186. Raven Press, New York.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1979) "A Jarman/Bell model of primate feeding niches." Human Ecology, 7: 120.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and L. E. Craker (1979) "Protein in vegetative and reproductive tissues of several neotropical species." J. Agric. Food Chem., 17: 791795.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1979) "Choix des aliments et evolution." Communications, 31: 3351.
  • Kurland, J. A. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1979) "Testing kin selection: Problems with r." Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 6: 8182.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C., D. H. Knight and C. K. Gaulin (1980) "Local variance in Alouatta density and food availability on Barro Colorado island." Biotropica, 12: 137143.
  • Ridgely, R. S. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1980) "The birds of Finca Merenberg, Huila Department, Colombia. Condor, 82: 379391.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1980) "Sexual dimorphism in the human postreproductive life span." J. Human Evol., 9: 227232.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and A. Schlegel (1980) "Paternal confidence and paternal investment: A crosscultural test of a sociobiological hypothesis." Ethol. Sociobiol., 1: 301309.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and C. K. Gaulin (1982) "Behavioral ecology of Alouatta seniculus in Andean cloud forest." Internat. J. Primatol., 3: 132.
  • Kurland, J. A. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1984) "The evolution of male parental investment: Effects of genetic relatedness and feeding ecology on the allocation of reproductive effort." In D. M. Taub, ed. Primate Paternalism, pp. 259308. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
  • Sailer, L. D. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1984) "Proximity, sociality, and observation: The definition of social groups." Amer. Anthropol., 86: 9198.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and L. D. Sailer (1984) "Sexual dimorphism in weight among the primates: The relative impact of allometry and sexual selection." Internat. J. Primatol., 5: 515535.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and L. D. Sailer (1985) "Are females the ecological sex?" Amer. Anthropol., 87: 111119.
  • Sailer, L. D., S. J. C. Gaulin, J. S. Boster, and J. A. Kurland (1985) "Measuring the relationship between dietary quality and body size in primates." Primates, 26: 1427.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1985) "Crosscultural differences in sexual dimorphism: Is there any variance to be explained?" Ethol. Sociobiol., 6: 193199.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and R. W. FitzGerald (1986) "Sex differences in spatial ability: An evolutionary hypothesis and test." Amer. Nat., 127: 7488.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1986) "The use and abuse of sociobiology." Behav. Brain Sci., 9: 193194.
  • Kurland, J. A. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1987) "Comparability among measures of primate diets." Primates, 28: 7177.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1987) "A logical structure for human sociobiology." In A. Fine and P. Machamer, eds. PSA 1986, Vol. 2 pp. 7586. Philosophy of Science Assoc., E. Lansing, MI.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and H. A. Hoffman (1988) "Evolution and development of sex differences in spatial ability." In L. Betzig, M. Borgerhoff Mulder and P. Turke, eds. Human Reproductive Behavior: A Darwinian Perspective, pp. 129152. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and R. W. FitzGerald (1988) "Home range size as a predictor of mating systems in Microtus." J. Mammal., 69: 311319.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and R. W. FitzGerald (1989) "Sexual selection for spatiallearning ability." Animal Behav., 37: 322331.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C., R. W. FitzGerald and M. S. Wartell (1990) "Sex differences in spatial ability and activity in two vole species (Microtus pennsylvanicus and M. ochrogaster)." J. Comp. Psychol., 104: 8893.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and M. S. Wartell (1990) "Effects of experience and motivation on symmetricalmaze performance in Microtus ochrogaster." J. Comp. Psychol., 104: 183189.
  • Jacobs, L. F., S. J. C. Gaulin, D. Sherry and G. E. Hoffman (1990) "Evolution of spatial cognition: Sexspecific patterns of spatial behavior predict hippocampal size." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 87: 63496352.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1990) "Dowry as female competition" Amer. Anthropol., 92: 9941005.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C and C. Robbins (1991) "A Trivers Willard effect in contemporary North American society." Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol., 85: 6169.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1991) "Dowry and female competition: A Reply to Dickemann" Amer. Anthropol., 93: 946948.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1991) "The role of crossspecies studies in crosscultural research." Behav. Sci. Res., 25: 259270.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1992) "Human marriage systems and sexual dimorphism in stature." Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol., 89: 467475.
  • Sherry, D., L. F. Jacobs, and S. J. C. Gaulin (1992) "Spatial memory and adaptive specialization of the hippocampus." Trends in Neurosci., 15: 298303.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1992) "Evolution of sex differences in spatial ability." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 35: 125151.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1993) "Testing explanatory models of dowry: A reply to Schlegel" Amer. Anthropol., 95: 157159.
  • Sherry, D., L. F. Jacobs, and S. J. C. Gaulin (1993) "Reply: Memory and adaptive specialization of the hippocampus." Trends in Neurosci., 16: 57.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1993) "How and why sex differences evolve, with spatial ability as a paradigm example." In M. Haug, R. Whalen, C. Aron and K. Olsen, eds. The Development of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior, pp. 111130. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands. J.
  • M. Regalski and S. J. C. Gaulin (1993) "Whom are Mexican infants said to resemble? Monitoring and fostering paternal confidence in the Yucatan" Ethol. Sociobiol., 14: 97113.
  • Bailey, J. M., S. J. C. Gaulin, Y. Agyei and B. Gladue (1994) "Effects of gender and sexual orientation on evolutionarily relevant aspects of human mating psychology." J. Pers. Soc. Psych., 66: 10811093.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1995) "Does evolutionary theory predict sex differences in the brain?" In M. Gazzaniga, ed. The Cognitive Neurosciences, pp. 12111225. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1996) "Sexual selection." Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 11781182.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1996) "Dowry." Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 359361.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1997) "Dowry as female competition" Reprint of #28, In L. Betzig, ed. Human Nature: A Critical Reader, pp 362371. Oxford University Press.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and J. S. Boster (1997) "When are husbands worth fighting for?" In L. Betzig, ed. Human Nature: A Critical Reader, pp 372374. Oxford University Press.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C., D. McBurney, and S. BrakemanWartell (1997) "Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: A consequence and measure of paternity uncertainty." Human Nature, 8: 139151.
  • D. McBurney, S. Gaulin, T. Devineni and C. Adams (1997) "Superior spatial ability of women: Stronger evidence for the gathering hypothesis." Evol. Hum. Behav., 18: 165174.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (1997) "Crosscultural patterns and the search for psychological mechanisms." In M. Daly (ed.) Characterizing Human Psychological Adaptations, pp. 195207. John Wiley: Chichester.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C., I. Silverman, K. Phillips, and C. Reiber (1997) "Activational hormone influences on abilities and attitudes: Implications for evolutionary theory" Evolution and Cognition, 3: 191199.
  • Christman, B. and S. J. C. Gaulin (1998) “Unambiguous evidence of helping at the nest in Bridled Titmice.” Wilson Bulletin 110: 567-569.
  • Boster, J. S., R. R. Hudson, and S. J. C. Gaulin (1998) “High paternity certainties of Jewish priests.” Amer. Anthropol. 100: 967-971.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and D. McBurney (2001) Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • McBurney, D. H., J. Simon, S. J. C. Gaulin, and A. Geliebter. (2002) “Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: Replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty.” Human Nature 13: 391-401.
  • Gaulin, S. J .C, and D. A. Putz (2003) “Adaptation and Natural Selection.” In D. A. Putz (ed.) Human Sexuality: A Holistic Approach. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. (2003) “Genes, behavior and evolution.” In S. Kassin, Psychology, fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Gaulin, S. J. C. and D. McBurney (2004) Evolutionary Psychology, (second edition of #51). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Putz, D. A., S. J. C. Gaulin, R. Sporter & D. H. McBurney (2004) Sex hormones and finger length: What does 2D:4D indicate? Evolution and Human Behavior, 25, 182-199.57.
  • Kurland, J. A. & S. J. C. Gaulin, S. J. C. and (2005) “Cooperation and conflict among kin.” in D. Buss (ed.) The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, pp 447-482. New York: John Wiley.
  • Puts, D. A., S. J. C Gaulin & K. Verdolini (2006) Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch. Evolution and Human Behavior 27: 283-296.
  • Lassek, W. D., and S. J. C. Gaulin (2006) “Changes in body fat distribution in relation to parity in American women: A covert form of maternal depletion.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131: 295-302.
  • Gaulin. S. J. C. (2006) “Evolutionary Psychology.” In J. H. Kaas, ed. Evolution of Nervous Systems. Vol 4: 497-502 Elsevier, Oxford.
  • Puts, D. A., S. J. C. Gaulin, S. M. Breedlove (2006) “Sex differences in spatial ability: Evolution, hormones and the brain.” In S. Platek, ed. Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. pp. 329-379 John Wiley, New York
  • Lassek, W. D., S. J. C. Gaulin (in press) “Menarche is related to fat distribution.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology (DOI 10.1002/ajpa.20644).
  • Puts, D. A., C. R. Hodges, R. A. Cárdenas, S. J. C. Gaulin (in press) Men's voices as dominance signals: Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies influence dominance attributions among men. Evolution and Human Behavior.


Recent Invited Lectures
  • April 1990, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
  • April 1990, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
  • Feb. 1991, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  • March 1991, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
  • April 1991, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario
  • Sept. 1991, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Oct. 1991, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
  • Sept. 1992, Department of Biology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
  • Jan. 1992, Evolution and Human Behavior Program, University of Michigan
  • Feb. 1992, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
  • April 1992, Department of Psychology, York University, York, Ontario
  • July 1992, NATO Conference on Sex Differences, Toulouse, France
  • Oct. 1992, Department of Zoology, Arizona State University
  • July 1993, Summer Institute on Cognitive Neuroscience, Squaw Creek, California.
  • Oct. 1996, Ciba Foundation Conference #208: Human Psychological Adaptations, London, England.
  • Nov. 1996, The Welcome Institute, London, England.
  • Aug. 1998, Anthropology Programme, University of Melbourne
  • Oct. 1998, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Melbourne
  • Nov. 1998, Genetics Department, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Mar. 1999, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
  • Feb. 2000, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Louisiana
  • April 2000, Cognitive Science Program, University of Connecticut
  • April 2003, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • April 2003, Luce Conference on Evolutionary Economics, Penn State University
  • June 2003, Plenary Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Lincoln, Nebraska