Evolutionary  Anthropology Journal Club

Fall Semester 2009

• Trivers 1972.  Parental Investment and Sexual Selection.  In Cambell, ed Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man 1871-1971. Pp 136-179.  Aldine, Chicago. pdf.
• Trivers 2002. (His introduction to the '72 paper in 2002 collection). pdf.

• Emlen & Oring 1977. Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems. Science 197:215-223. pdf.
  
• Sargent & Gross 1985 Parental investment decision rules and the Concorde fallacy. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 17:43-45. pdf.

• Williams 1966 Natural selection, the cost of reproduction, and a refinement of Lack's principle  Am Nat. 100:687-690.  pdf.
• Dawkins & Carlisle 1976 Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy. Nature 262:131-133. pdf.
• Maynard Smith 1977 Parental investment: a prospective analysis. Anim Behav 25:1-9  pdf.

• Queller 1997 Why do females care more than males?  Proc Roy Soc London B 264:1555-1557. pdf.

• Houston et. al. 2005 Conflict between parents over care. TREE 20:33-38. pdf.
  

• White et. al. 2009 Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids. Science 236:75-86.pdf.

• Kokko & Jennions 2003 It takes two to tango.  TREE 18:103-104.  pdf.
• McDowall 2003 In defense of the caring male.  TREE 18:610-11.  pdf.
• Kokko 2003  Response to McDowall.  TREE 18:611-12 pdf.

• Kokko & Jennions 2008 Parental investment, sexual selection, and sex ratios. J Evol Biol 21:919-948. pdf.

• Continued:  Kokko & Jennions 2008 Parental investment, sexual selection, and sex ratios. J Evol Biol 21:919-948. pdf.

13 November

• Lovejoy 2009. Reexamining  human origins in light of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 326:74  pdf.

• Borgerhoff-Mulder & Rauch 2009. Sexual Conflict in humans: Variations and solutions. Ev Anth 18:201-214. pdf.

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Fall Semester 2008

• Achilli et al, 2008.  The phylogeny of the four Pan-American MtDNA haplogroups:  Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Studies.  pdf
  

• Harpending on Achilli -- commentary  pdf

• FOR DISCUSSION: Goebel, Waters, and O'Rourke. 2008.  The late Pleistocene dispersal of modern humans in the Americas. pdf

• OPTIONAL:  Mulligan et al. 2008.  Updated 3-stage model for the peopling of the Americas pdf

• de Waal, Leimgruber, and Greenberg. 2008.  Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys.  pdf
  

• Lee, 2008.  Sociality, selection, and survival:  Simulated evolution of mortality with intergenerational tranasfers and food sharing.  pdf
  

• Wobber, Hare, and Wrangham.  2008.  Great apes prefer cooked food. pdf

• Perry et al.  2007.  Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation.  pdf

• Boesch et al. 2008.  Intergroup conflicts among chimpanzees in Tai National Park: Lethal violence and the female perspective.  pdf

• Surbeck and Hohmann.  Primate hunting by bonobos at LuiKotale, Salonga National Park.  pdf

7 November

Note:  videoclips for the first article (Warneken & Tomasello 2006) are online  here.

• Warneken and Tomasello.  2006.  Altruistic helping in human infants and young chimpanzees. pdf

• Warneken et al.  2007.  Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children. pdf

• de Waal.  2007.  With a little help from a friend.  pdf
  

• Watson and Platt, 2008.  Neuroethology of reward and decision making. pdf

• Rilling et al., 2008.  The neural correlates of the affective response to unreciprocated cooperation. pdf
  

• Finlayson, 2008.  On the importance of coastal areas in the survival of Neanderthals during the Late Pleistocene.  pdf
  
  
• Bailey, 2008.  The coastal shelf of the Mediterranean and beyond:  Corridor and refugium for human populations in the Pleistocene.  pdf
  

• Leonetti, et al. 207.  In-law conflict:  Women's reproductive lives and the roles of their mothers and husbands among the matrilineal Khasi.  pdf