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
| Gurven, M., Costa, M., Eid Rodriguez, D., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B. A., Trumble, B., & Kaplan, H. (in preparation). Costs of reproduction are minimal despite high fertility, mortality and active lifestyle. | |
| 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. | |
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 |
| 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 |
