Michael Gurven

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University of California, Santa Barbara

United States

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Michael Gurven is a Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, located in the United States. His research interests encompass adaptations to water stress, social dynamics in small-scale human societies, childhood health in forager-farmers, and the social and ecological determinants of aging. His recent work also explores cooperation among neighbors, sedentary behavior during adolescence, and maternal and neonatal care practices in Indigenous populations.

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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanded Group Affiliation, Trust and Prosociality

Open Date: 2014-06-01

Close Date: 2016-11-30

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RAPID: Surviving the Flood: Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster

Open Date: 2014-05-01

Close Date: 2015-04-30

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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Maternal reproductive trade-offs and the duration of exclusive breastfeeding in a natural fertility population

Open Date: 2012-09-01

Close Date: 2015-08-31

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Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Determinants and Consequences of Women's Fertility Preferences and Fertility in a Rapidly Acculturating Population

Open Date: 2011-02-15

Close Date: 2012-07-31

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Dissertation Research: The Determinants and Outcomes of Male Social Status in a Rapidly Acculturating Amazonian Society

Open Date: 2009-09-01

Close Date: 2011-02-28

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Vanderbilt University

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Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society

Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya

Cross-cousin marriage among Tsimane forager–horticulturalists during demographic transition and market integration

Subjective well-being across the life course among non-industrialized populations

Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing

Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population

Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers

Traditional and biomedical maternal and neonatal care practices in a rural Indigenous population of the Bolivian Amazon

The importance of elders: Extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers

Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists

The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies

Socioeconomic status effects on health vary between rural and urban Turkana

Productivity loss associated with functional disability in a contemporary small-scale subsistence population

Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population

Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women?

Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population

Collaborators (17)

Amanda Lea

Benjamin Trumble

Jonathan Stieglitz

Margaret Gatz

Eva Wikberg

Aaron Blackwell

Paul L. Hooper

Philipp Messer

Anne Stone

Thomas Kraft

Victoria Reyes-García

Katharine Jack

Caleb Finch

Melanie Martin

Aili Pyhälä

Hillard Kaplan

Ann Caldwell

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