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Michael S. Alvard
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1993
Email: alvard@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 862-3492
Office: 223 Anthropology
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dot Alvard, M., Poston, D., and Cherry, R. In review.  Testing the nonparental transmission hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 2006 Review of The Emergence of Culture: The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life, By Philip G. Chase. Journal of Human Evolution 52:227 Link to PDF
dot M. Alvard.  2006 How much land do the Wana use?  In: Archaeology and Ethnoarcheology of Mobility F. Sellet, R. D. Greaves, and P. L. Yu, editors. Pp. 108- 126.  Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Link to PDF
dot Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., et al. 2005 "Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies. Behavrioal and Brain Sciences, 28 , 795-855. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M.  2005 Review of Sparing nature: the conflict between human population growth and earth's biodiversity by Jeffrey McKee.  Ecology, 87:263-264. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. (in press) Good hunters keep smaller shares of larger pies. Comment on To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers by Michael Gurven. Behavioral and Brain Sciences Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. Comment on Huna Tlingit Traditional Environmental Knowledge, Conservation, and the Management of a “Wilderness Park” by Eugene S. Hunn, Darryll Johnson, Priscilla Russell and Thomas Thornton. Current Anthropology 44:S93-S94. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 2004 The Ultimatum Game, Fairness, and Cooperation among Big Game Hunters In, Foundations of Human Sociality: Ethnography and Experiments in 15 small-scale societies, edited by Henrich, J., R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, E. Fehr and C. Camerer. pp. 413-435. London: Oxford University Press. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. and Gillespie, A 2004 Good Lamalera what hunters accrue reproductive benefits. Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology. Research in Economic Anthropology 23, 223-245. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M., editor 2004 Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 23. HTML
dot Alvard, M. 2003 Cooperation, evolution, and culture. Comment on Cooperation, psychological game theory, and limitations of rationality in social interaction by Andrew M. Colman. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26: 153-154 Link to PDF
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Alvard, M. 2003 The adaptive nature of culture. Evolutionary Anthropology 12:136-149

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dot Alvard, M.  2003 Kinship, lineage identity, and an evolutionary perspective on the structure of cooperative big game hunting groups in Indonesia. Human Nature 14:129-163. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. and D. Nolin. 2002  Rousseau's whale hunt? Coordination among big game hunters. Current Anthropology 43(4):533-559. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M.  2002 Carcass ownership and meat distribution by big-game cooperative hunters. Research in Economic Anthropology 99-131 Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 2002 Evolutionary theory, conservation, and human environmental impact. In: Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature. Charles Kay and R. Simmons, editors. pp 28-43. Logan: Utah State Press. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 2001. Mutualistic Hunting. In The Early Human Diet: The Role of Meat. Craig Stanford and Henry Bunn, eds., pp. 261-278.  New York: Oxford University. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. and L. Kuznar.  2001  The transition from hunting to animal husbandry: prey choice when harvests are deferred. American Anthropologist 103(2):295-311.   Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 2000 The Potential for sustainable Harvests by Traditional Wana Hunters in Morowali Nature Reserve, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Human Organization 59(4):428-440. Link to PDF
dot Alvard. M. 2000  The impact of traditional subsistence hunting and trapping on prey populations:  Data from the Wana of upland Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. In, Hunting for Sustainability in tropical forests. J. Robinson and Elizabeth Bennett, eds., pp 214-230. New York: Columbia Press. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 1998 Evolutionary Ecology and Resource Conservation Evolutionary Anthropology  7:62-74. from Wiley-Liss, Inc Link
dot Alvard, M. 1998  Indigenous hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or optimal foraging? In, Behavioral Ecology and Conservation. Biology. Tim Caro, ed. pp. 474 - 500. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
dot Alvard, M., J. Robinson, K. Redford and H. Kaplan 1997 The Sustainability of subsistence hunting in the neotropics. Conservation Biology 11:977-982. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 1995 Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazon Hunters. Current Anthropology 36: 789- 818. Link to PDF
dot Alvard, M. 1994 Conservation by native peoples: Prey choice in a depleted habitat. Human Nature 5: 127-154.  
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Alvard, M. 1993 Testing the 'Ecologically Noble Savage' Hypothesis: Interspecific Prey Choice by Piro Hunters of Amazonia Peru. Human Ecology 21: 355-387. (MISSING)

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