I study male social status in small-scale human societies. My research investigates (1) how status is acquired over the life-course, (2) the reproductive and health consequences of status, and (3) the effects of socio-ecological change on the determinants and outcomes of status hierarchy. My empirical work focuses on the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia. I am also investigating leadership and its role in collective action among the Tsimane. 

                                                     Publications:     

•     Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige ............ 2011
•     Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice ........... 2010
•     Domestication alone does not lead to inequality ........................................... 2010
•     Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality ........... 2009
•     A bioeconomic approach to marriage and the sexual division of labor ............. 2009
•     Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability . 2009
•     The multiple dimensions of male social status in an Amazonian society .......... 2008
•     Hunting, social status, and biological fitness ................................................ 2006
•     Evolution of brain size and juvenile periods in primates ................................. 2006

•    Personality among indigenous Amazonians: tests of the Big Five model .......... 2010

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