Max-Planck-Institut
Contact
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Publications
Articles
| Jaeggi, A., Hooper, P., Beheim, B. A., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (in preparation). Supply and demand explain reciprocal exchange of multiple commodities and individual differences in cooperation in a small-scale subsistence society. | |
| Mattison, S., Beheim, B. A., Chak, B., & Buston, P. (in preparation). Parity progression rations are consistent with son-biased parental investment among the patrilineal, but not matrilineal, Mosuo of Southwest China. | |
| Rowan, C., Achrekar, A., Beheim, B. A., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M., & Tolstrup, K. (in preparation). Atrial fibrillation is rare in a contemporary, preindustrial non-Western, non-industrialized population with high inflammation and enlarged left atria. | |
| Trumble, B., Pontzer, H., Cummings, D., Beheim, B. A., Stieglitz, J., Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (in preparation). Assessing the energetic costs of testosterone: Higher testosterone associated with total energetic expenditure above and beyond lean muscle mass. | |
| Wood, B. M., Pontzer, H., Harris, J., Mabulla, A., Hamilton, M., Zderic, T., Beheim, B. A., & Raichlen, D. (in press). Step counts from satellites: methods for integrating accelerometer and GPS data for more accurate measures of pedestrian travel. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour. | |
| Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Towner, M. C., Baldini, R., Beheim, B. A., Bowles, S., Colleran, H., Gurven, M., Kramer, K. L., Mattison, S. M., Nolin, D. A., Scelza, B. A., Schniter, E., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K., Voland, E., & Ziker, J. (2019). Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences,374(1780): 20180076. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Ross, C., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Oh, S.-Y., Bowles, S., Beheim, B. A., Bunce, J. A., Caudell, M., Clark, G., Colleran, H., Cortez, C., Draper, P., Greaves, R. D., Gurven, M., Headland, T., Headland, J., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Kaplan, H. S., Koster, J., Kramer, K., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Nolin, D., Quinlan, M., Quinlan, R., Revilla-Minaya, C., Scelza, B., Schacht, R., Shenk, M., Uehara, R., Voland, E., Willführ, K., Winterhalder, B., & Ziker, J. (2018). Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society,15(144): 20180035.  Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Schniter, E., Wilcox, N. T., Beheim, B. A., Kaplan, H. S., & Gurven, M. (2018). Information transmission and the oral tradition: Evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians. Evolution and Human Behavior,39(1), 94-105. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Kaplan, H., Thompson, R. C., Trumble, B. C., Wann, L. S., Allam, A. H., Beheim, B., Frohlich, B., Sutherland, M. L., Sutherland, J. D., Stieglitz, J., Rodriguez, D. E., Michalik, D. E., Rowan, C. J., Lombardi, G. P., Bedi, R., Garcia, A. R., Min, J. K., Narula, J., Finch, C. E., Gurven, M., & Thomas, G. S. (2017). Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study. The Lancet,389(10080), 1730-1739. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Blackwell, A. D., Beheim, B., Davis, H., Hooper, P., & Kaplan, H. (2017). The Tsimane health and life history project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews,26(2), 54-73. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A. D., Allayee, H., Beheim, B., Finch, C. E., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2017). Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with improved cognitive function in Amazonian forager-horticulturalists with a high parasite burden. The FASEB Journal,31(4), 1508-1515. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Blackwell, A. D., Urlacher, S. S., Beheim, B. A., von Rueden, C., Jaeggi, A., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B. C., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2017). Growth references for Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,162, 441-461. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M., Fuerstenberg, E., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Davis, H., & Kaplan, H. (2017). Cognitive performance across the life course of Bolivian forager-farmers with limited schooling. Developmental Psychology,53(1), 160-176. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M. D., Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Yetish, G., Cummings, D., Blackwell, A. D., Beheim, B., Kaplan, H. S., & Pontzer, H. (2016). High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,161(3), 414-425. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Mattison, S. M., Beheim, B., Chak, B., & Buston, P. (2016). Offspring sex preferences among patrilineal and matrilineal Mosuo in Southwest China revealed by differences in parity progression. Royal Society Open Science,3(9): 160526. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Jaeggi, A., Hooper, P., Beheim, B. A., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2016). Reciprocal exchange patterned by market forces helps explain cooperation in a small-scale society. Current Biology,26(16), 2180-2187. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M., Costa, M., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Rodriguez, D. E., Hooper, P. L., & Kaplan, H. (2016). Health costs of reproduction are minimal despite high fertility, mortality and subsistence lifestyle. Scientific Reports,6: 30056. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Blackwell, A. D., Trumble, B. C., Suarez, I. M., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B., Snodgrass, J. J., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2016). Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists. Annals of Human Biology,43(4), 382-396. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Blackwell, A. D., Tamayo, M. A., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P. L., Martin, M., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2015). Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women. Science,350(6263), 970-972. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B. C., Madimenos, F. C., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2015). Low mineral density of a weight-bearing bone among adult women in a high fertility population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,156(4), 637-648. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A., Thigpen, C., & McElreath, R. (2014). Strategic social learning and the population dynamics of human behavior: The game of Go. Evolution and Human Behavior,35(5), 351-357. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A., & Baldini, R. (2012). Evolutionary decomposition and the mechanisms of cultural change. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History,3(2), 217-233. Open Access BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A., & Bell, A. V. (2011). Inheritance, ecology and the evolution of the canoes of east Oceania. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,278(1721), 3089-3095. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & Beheim, B. A. (2011). Understanding the nature of wealth and its effects on human fitness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences,366(1563), 344-356. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Meeting Abstracts
| Blackwell, A. D., Trumble, B. C., Suarez, I. M., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Snodgrass, J. J., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2017). Immune function across the life-span in Amazonian horticulturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,162(S64), 121. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M. D., Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Blackwell, A. D., Michalik, D., Allam, A. H., Rowan, C., Frohlich, B., Sutherland, L., Sutherland, J. D., Min, J. K., Finch, C. E., Wann, S., Thompson, R. C., Thomas, G. S., & Kaplan, H. (2017). Atherosclerosis in contemporary preindustrial populations: does it exist and is it clinically relevant? American Journal of Physical Anthropology,162(S64), 205. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A. D., Beheim, B. A., Cummings, D. K., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2017). Associations between biomarkers of immune function and cognitive performance in forager-horticulturalists with high parasite and pathogen loads. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,162(S64), 386-387. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Mattison, S. M., & Beheim, B. A. (2016). Levels of analysis: What unit is the most appropriate for understanding the effects of market integration? American Journal of Physical Anthropology,159(S62), 221-222. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Mattison, S. M., Muller, M. N., Thompson, M. E., Beheim, B. A., Enigk, D. K., Gurven, M., Sabbi, K., Trumble, B. C., Wrangham, R. W., & Kaplan, H. (2016). Testosterone, musculature, and development in Kanyawara chimpanzees and Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,159(S62), 236. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Trumble, B. C., Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Beheim, B. A., Schwartz, M., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2016). The impact of a natural disaster on physical and mental health: Offspring morbidity and crop loss as mediators of paternal testosterone, cortisol, and depression among Bolivian forager-farmers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,159(S62), 318. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Rowan, C. J., Sangodkar, S. C., Achrekar, A. P., Tolstrup, K., Beheim, B. A., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2015). Left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction is an uncommon finding in a pre-industrial society with high inflammation and low atherosclerotic risk factors. Circulation,132(Suppl 3): A18333. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B., Madimenos, F., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2015). Low mineral density of a weight-bearing bone among adult women in a high fertility population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,156(S60), 297. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Trumble, B. C., Cummings, D., Beheim, B. A., Stieglitz, J., Yetish, G., Pontzer, H., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2015). Energetic costs of testosterone: Higher testosterone is associated with greater lean muscle mass and total energetic expenditure among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,156(S60), 307-308. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Blackwell, A., Tamayo, M., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. (2015). Different parasites, different human life histories: Roundworm increases human fecundity and leads to earlier reproduction, while hookworm entails costs to reproduction. In Human behavior & evolution society: 27th annual conference (pp. 172). BibTeX Endnote | |
| Kaplan, H., Gurven, M., Cortez, E., Eid, D., Beheim, B. A., Stieglitz, J., Rowan, C., Tolstrup, K., & Achrekar, A. (2014). Slow cardiovascular aging and rare infarcts among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,153(S3), 155. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Thompson, M., Beheim, B. A., Blackwell, A., Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2014). Immunosenescence in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,153(S3), 114. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Talks
| Beheim, B. A., Ross, C., Thigpen, C., & McElreath, R. (2015).Cultural evolution in games of chess and go. Talk presented at Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological association. Denver, CO. 2015-11-17 - 2015-11-22. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2014).What evolutionary processes drive cultural change?. Talk presented at Meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. 2014-11-10 - 2014-11-12. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A., Thigpen, C., & McElreath, R. (2014).Evolutionary dynamics in the game of Go. Talk presented at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. University of California, Los Angeles. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Gurven, M. D., Costa, M. E., Eid Rodriguez, D., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B., & Kaplan, H. S. (2014).Costs of reproduction and maternal depletion in a high fertility and mortality population. Talk presented at Population Association of America 2014 Meeting. Boston, MA. 2014-05-01 - 2014-05-03. BibTeX Endnote |
Thesis
| Beheim, B. (2012). Inferring general mechanisms of cultural evolution in observational settings. PhD Thesis, University of California, Davis, CA. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A. (2006). Japan's cultural inoculation: A Darwinian account of the radiation and retreat of firearms and Christianity, 1543-1650. Master Thesis, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Beheim, B. A. (2004). The city of ephesus and the fall of the Roman Empire. Bachelor Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. BibTeX Endnote |
