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Stephen Beckerman

Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
Verified email at psu.edu
Cited by 3506

The Bari partible paternity project: Preliminary results

S Beckerman, R Lizarralde, C Ballew… - Current …, 1998 - journals.uchicago.edu
More recently, Fleming et al.(1992) have claimed that vive to be passed on to subsequent
generations, and another language seen as Cushitic, Ongotan, may also some new genes or …

Life histories, blood revenge, and reproductive success among the Waorani of Ecuador

S Beckerman, PI Erickson, J Yost… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The Waorani may have the highest rate of homicide of any society known to anthropology.
We interviewed 121 Waorani elders of both sexes to obtain genealogical information and …

The abundance of protein in Amazonia: A reply to Gross

S Beckerman - American Anthropologist, 1979 - Wiley Online Library
A critical examination of Gross's hypothesis that aboriginal Amazonian populations were limited
to low levels by lack of adequate protein resources concludes that (1) evidence either for …

Why hunter-gatherers work: An ancient version of the problem of public goods [and comments and reply]

K Hawkes, J Altman, S Beckerman… - Current …, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
People who hunt and gather for a living share some resources more widely than others. A
favored hypothesis to explain the differential sharing is that giving up portions of large, …

Food Taboos, diet, and hunting strategy: the adaptation to animals in amazon cultural ecology [and Comments and Reply]

…, ML Arnott, EB Basso, S Beckerman… - Current …, 1978 - journals.uchicago.edu
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from
an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this …

Bands of brothers and in-laws: Waorani warfare, marriage and alliance formation

…, L Jaramillo, S Beckerman - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The root of modern human warfare lies in the lethal coalitionary violence of males in small-scale
societies. However, there is a paucity of quantitative data concerning the form and …

Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals

…, B Beheim, S Beckerman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
To address claims of human exceptionalism, we determine where humans fit within the
greater mammalian distribution of reproductive inequality. We show that humans exhibit lower …

Optimal foraging group size for a human population: the case of Bari fishing

S Beckerman - American Zoologist, 1983 - academic.oup.com
The Bari of the Maracaibo basin obtain most of the meat in their diet by spearfishing, usually
in stretches of river which they dam off before fishing them. As the number of men in a …

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

…, V Venkataraman, T Kraft, K Endicott, S Beckerman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Human adaptation depends on the integration of slow life history, complex production skills,
and extensive sociality. Refining and testing models of the evolution of human life history …

Optimal foraging and hominid evolution: labor and reciprocity

JA Kurland, SJ Beckerman - American Anthropologist, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
We argue that cooperative foraging incorporating information exchange may have preceded
tool use during the course of hominid evolution. In moving to the savanna, early hominids …