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Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

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Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

e-mail: monique_borgerhoff@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

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Positions
Research Interests
Current Projects
Selected recent publications

Positions

  • Distinguished Research Professor (University of California at Davis), emerita
  • Honorary Visiting Professor (University of Bristol)

Research Interests

I am an evolutionary anthropologist currently working on:

  • family and demography in small-scale societies
  • cooperation over the sustainable management of natural resources,
  • economic inequality and social networks
  • linking evolutionary theory and applied challenges in developing countries

Current Projects

These include

  • Longterm demographic and economic change in Mpimbwe (western Tanzania)
  • Cooperation over sustainable forest management in Pemba (Zanzibar) with Jeff Andrews
  • PI on a longitudinal cross-cultural investigation of the effects of social networks on inequality (ENDOW with Eleanor Power, Sam Bowles, Matt Jackson, and Dan Redhead))
  • A collaboration with University of Exeter supporting community-based natural resource management in East African pastoralist conservancies to achieve the UN SDGs (with Tom Currie and Lindsay Walker)
  • An assessment of the factors contributing to rangeland condition in the Northern Tanzania Rangeland Initiative for The Nature Conservancy, as PI for Savannas Forever (with Majory Silisyene)
  • Comparative study of reproductive inequality across mammals (originally a NIMBIOS collaborative, with Cody Ross)

Selected recent publications

Clark, M., Hamad, H. M., Andrews, J., Kolarik, N., Hopping, K., Hillis, V., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2024). A productive friction: Leveraging misalignments between local ecological knowledge and remotely sensed imagery for forest conservation planning (advance online). Conservation Science and Practice, e13247.
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Clark, M., Hamad, H. M., Andrews, J. B., Hillis, V., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2024). Effects of perceptions of forest change and intergroup competition on community‐based conservation behaviors. Conservation Biology, 38(4): e14259.
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Walker, L. A., Gohil, D., Hedges, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., King, J., & Currie, T. E. (2024). Governance characteristics and feelings of safety are associated with attitudinal success in community-based natural resource management & conservation organizations in northern Kenya. People and Nature, 6(4), 1435-1451.
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Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2024). The value of failure: The effect of an expired REDD+ conservation program on residents’ willingness for future participation. Ecological Economics, 220: 108155.
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Andrews, J. B., Clark, M., Hillis, V., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2024). The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance. Nature Sustainability, 7(4), 404-412.
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Currie, T. E., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Fogarty, L., Schlüter, M., Folke, C., Haider, L. J., Caniglia, G., Tavoni, A., Jansen, R. E. V., Jørgensen, P. S., & Waring, T. M. (2024). Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1893).
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Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kramer, K., Shenk, M. K., Stieglitz, J., Starkweather, K., Ziker, J. P., Boyette, A. H., Colleran, H., Moya, C., Du, J., Mattison, S. M., Greaves, R., Sum, C.-Y., Liu, R., Lew-Levy, S., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F., Prall, S., Towner, M. C., Blumenfield, T., Migliano, A. B., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M., Salali, G. D., Chaudhary, N., Derkx, I. E., Ross, C. T., Scelza, B. A., Gurven, M. D., Winterhalder, B. P., Cortez, C., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Schacht, R., Macfarlan, S. J., Leonetti, D., French, J. C., Alam, N., Zohora, F. t., Kaplan, H. S., Hooper, P. L., & Sear, R. (2024). Women's subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters. PNAS, 121(9): e2318181121.
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Pisor, A. C., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & Smith, K. M. (2024). Long-distance social relationships can both undercut and promote local natural resource management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1893).
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Pretelli, I., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Makame Khamis, B., & McElreath, R. (2023). Foraging efficiency and the importance of knowledge in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2011): 20231505.
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Smith, K. M., Pisor, A. C., Aron, B., Bernard, K., Fimbo, P., Kimesera, R., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). Friends near and afar, through thick and thin: Comparing contingency of help between close-distance and long-distance friends in Tanzanian fishing villages. Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(5), 454-465.
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Redhead, D., Maliti, E., Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1883): 20220288.
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Ross, C., Hooper, P. L., Smith, J. E., Jaeggi, A. V., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., Zohora, F. t., Ziker, J., Xygalatas, D., Wroblewski, E. E., Wood, B. M., Winterhalder, B., Willführ, K. P., Willard, A. K., Walker, K., von Rueden, C., Voland, E., Valeggia, C., Vaitla, B., Urlacher, S., Towner, M., Sum, C.-Y., Sugiyama, L. S., Strier, K. B., Starkweather, K., Major-Smith, D., Shenk, M., Sear, R., Seabright, E., Schacht, R., Scelza, B., Scaggs, S., Salerno, J., Revilla-Minaya, C., Redhead, D., Pusey, A., Purzycki, B. G., Power, E. A., Pisor, A. C., Pettay, J., Perry, S., Page, A. E., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Oths, K., Oh, S.-Y., Nolin, D., Nettle, D., Moya, C., Migliano, A. B., Mertens, K. J., McNamara, R. A., McElreath, R., Mattison, S., Massengill, E., Marlowe, F., Madimenos, F., Macfarlan, S., Lummaa, V., Lizarralde, R., Liu, R., Liebert, M. A., Lew-Levy, S., Leslie, P., Lanning, J., Kramer, K., Koster, J., Kaplan, H. S., Jamsranjav, B., Hurtado, A. M., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Helle, S., Headland, T., Headland, J., Gurven, M., Grimalda, G., Greaves, R., Golden, C. D., Godoy, I., Gibson, M., Mouden, C. E., Dyble, M., Draper, P., Downey, S., DeMarco, A. L., Davis, H. E., Crabtree, S., Cortez, C., Colleran, H., Cohen, E., Clark, G., Clark, J., Caudell, M. A., Carminito, C. E., Bunce, J. A., Boyette, A. H., Bowles, S., Blumenfield, T., Beheim, B. A., Beckerman, S., Atkinson, Q., Apicella, C., Alam, N., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(22): 2220124120.
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Pretelli, I., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & McElreath, R. (2022). Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4: e34.
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Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2022). Forest income and livelihoods on Pemba: A quantitative ethnography. World Development, 153: 105817.
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Genda, P. A., Ngoteya, H. C., Caro, T., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2022). Looking up and down: Strong collaboration is only the first step in tackling parachute science. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(5): e12677.
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Collins, A. C., Grote, M. N., Caro, T., Ghosh, A., Thorne, J., Salerno, J., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2022). How community forest management performs when REDD+ payments fail. Environmental Research Letters, 17: 034019.
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Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2022). [Book review] Mhola—The Utopia of Peace: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Sungusungu Movement in Tanzania. Per Brandström. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021, 264 pp. 262 SEK, paper. ISBN 978-91-513-1114-2. Journal of Anthropological Research, 78(2), 276-278.
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Dobson, A., Hopcraft, G., Mduma, S., Ogutu, J. O., Fryxell, J., Anderson, T. M., Archibald, S., Lehmann, C., Poole, J., Caro, T., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Holt, R. D., Berger, J., Rubenstein, D. I., Kahumbu, P., Chidumayo, E. N., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Schluter, D., Otto, S., Balmford, A., Wilcove, D., Pimm, S., Veldma, J., Olff, H., Noss, R., Holdo, R., Beale, C., Hempson, G., Kiwango, Y., Lindenmayer, D., Bond, W., Ritchie, M., & Sinclair, A. R. E. (2022). Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks. Science, 375(6579), 392-392.
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Lukas, D., Towner, M., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2021). The potential to infer the historical pattern of cultural macroevolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1828): 20200057.
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Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2021). Norm compliance in common pool resource management: Experimental evidence from Pemba. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174(S71), 4-4.
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Andrews, J. B., Caro, T., Ali, S. J., Collins, A. C., Hamadi, B. B., Khamis, H. S., Mzee, A., Ngwali, A. S., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2021). Does REDD+ have a chance? Implications from Pemba, Tanzania. Oryx, 55(5), 725-731.
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Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Caro, T., & Ngwali, A. S. (2021). A silver lining to REDD: Institutional growth despite programmatic failure. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(1): e312.
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Ross, C., Jaeggi, A. V., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Smith, J. E., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., & Hooper, P. L. (2020). The multinomial index: A robust measure of reproductive skew. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1936).
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Broesch, T., Crittenden, A. N., Beheim, B. A., Blackwell, A. D., Bunce, J. A., Colleran, H., Hagel, K., Kline, M., McElreath, R., Nelson, R. G., Pisor, A. C., Prall, S., Pretelli, I., Purzycki, B., Quinn, E. A., Ross, C., Scelza, B., Starkweather, K. E., Stieglitz, J., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2020). Navigating cross-cultural research: Methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287: 20201245.
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Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kwiyega, J. L., Beccaria, S., Bwasama, S. S., Fitzherbert, E., Genda, P., & Caro, T. (2019). Lions, bylaws, and conservation metrics. BioScience, 69(12), 1008-1018.
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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.
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Borgerhoff Mulder, M., & Ross, C. (2019). Unpacking mating success and testing Bateman’s principles in a human population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1908): 20191516.
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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. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15(144): 20180035.
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Andrews, J. B., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2018). Cultural group selection and the design of REDD+: Insights from Pemba. Sustainability Science, 13(1), 93-107.
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Salerno, J., Mwalyoyo, J., Caro, T., Fitzherbert, E., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2017). The consequences of internal migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study. BioScience, 67(7), 664-671.
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Smith, J. E., et al. (2016). "Leadership in mammalian societies: Emergence, distribution, power, and payoff." Trends in ecology & evolution 31(1): 54-66.

Lawson, D. W., et al. (2015). "No evidence that polygynous marriage is a harmful cultural practice in northern Tanzania." Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences 112(45): 13827-13832.

Salerno, J., et al. (2014). "Human migration, protected areas, and conservation outreach in Tanzania." Conservation Biology 28(3): 841-850.

Schacht, R., et al. (2014). "Too Many Men? The Violence Problem." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29(4): 214-222.          

Seel, S.-J., et al. (2014). The History and Traditions of the Pimbwe. Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.              

Brooks, J. S., et al. (2012). "How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109(52): 21265-21270.

Brown, G. R., et al. (2009). "Bateman’s principles and human sex roles." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24(6): 297-304.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., et al. (2009). "Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies." Science  326: 682-688.