Search filters

List of works by Bruce Winterhalder

A general model of forager search: Adaptive encounter-conditional heuristics outperform Lévy flights in the search for patchily distributed prey

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

A hierarchical bayesian analysis of parasite prevalence and sociocultural outcomes: The role of structural racism and sanitation infrastructure.

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Correction to: 'Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model'

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?

scientific article published in 2021

Demographic consequences of unpredictability in fertility outcomes

scientific article published in March 2002

Development and disintegration of Maya political systems in response to climate change

scientific article

Diet choice, risk, and food sharing in a stochastic environment

scholarly article by Bruce Winterhalder published in December 1986

Dung as an essential resource in a highland Peruvian community

article

Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]

journal article from 'Current Anthropology' published in 1982

Effects on Household Labor of Temporary Out-migration by Male Household Heads in Nicaragua and Peru: an Analysis of Spot-check Time Allocation Data Using Mixed-effects Models

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2013

Epidemics in Ming and Qing China: Impacts of changes of climate and economic well-being.

scientific article

Evidence for encounter-conditional, area-restricted search in a preliminary study of Colombian blowgun hunters

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Four neglected concepts with a role to play in explaining the origins of agriculture

scientific article published in October 2009

Frequency-Dependent Social Transmission and the Interethnic Transfer of Female Genital Modification in the African Diaspora and Indigenous Populations of Colombia.

scientific article

Gifts given, gifts taken: The behavioral ecology of nonmarket, intragroup exchange ⬇️

scientific article published in June 1997

Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Human ecology in Savanna environments. Edited by David R. Harris. New York: Academic Press, 1980. xvii + 522 pp., figures, tables, references, indices. $52.50 (cloth)

scientific article published on 09 August 2005

Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands

scholarly article by Bruce Winterhalder published in December 2010

Incorporating sociocultural adaptive capacity in conservation hotspot assessments

scientific article published in 2010

Large mammal biomass predicts the changing distribution of hunter-gatherer settlements in mid-late Holocene Alaska

scholarly article by Andrew H. Tremayne published in March 2017

Nahua mushroom gatherers use area-restricted search strategies that conform to marginal value theorem predictions.

scientific article published on 6 May 2019

Opportunity-Cost Foraging Models for Stationary and Mobile Predators

scientific article published in 1983

Population and Environmental Correlates of Maize Yields in Mesoamerica: a Test of Boserup’s Hypothesis in the Milpa

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2015

Population and Technological Change; A Study of Long-term Trends. Ester Boserup. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981. xi + 255 pp., tables, biblio., index. $17.50 (cloth).Demographic Archaeology. Fekri A. Hassan. Academic Press, New York, 1981

scholarly article by Bruce Winterhalder published in January 1983

Production risk, inter-annual food storage by households and population-level consequences in seasonal prehistoric agrarian societies

scientific article published on 7 October 2015

Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Risk-senstive adaptive tactics: Models and evidence from subsistence studies in biology and anthropology ⬇️

scientific article published in December 1999

Sit-and-wait versus active-search hunting: A behavioral ecological model of optimal search mode.

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká

scholarly article by Keith M. Prufer published in March 2017

The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways. Robert L. Kelly. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1995. xvi + 446 pp., figures, tables, references cited, index. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)

article

The invisible cliff: abrupt imposition of Malthusian equilibrium in a natural-fertility, agrarian society

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

The population ecology of despotism. Concessions and migration between central and peripheral habitats

scientific article published in March 2014

The population ecology of hunter-gatherers and their prey

article

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help