Search Results - "Koster, Jeremy"
-
1
Family ties: the multilevel effects of households and kinship on the networks of individuals
Published in Royal Society open science (01-04-2018)“…Among social mammals, humans uniquely organize themselves into communities of households that are centred around enduring, predominantly monogamous unions of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-09-2017)“…Behavioral ecologists frequently use observational methods, such as instantaneous scan sampling, to record the behavior of animals at discrete moments in time…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Small-scale utilitarianism: High acceptance of utilitarian solutions to Trolley Problems among a horticultural population in Nicaragua
Published in PloS one (05-04-2021)“…Researchers often use moral dilemmas to investigate the specific factors that influence participants' judgments of the appropriateness of different actions. A…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
The effects of individual status and group performance on network ties among teammates in the National Basketball Association
Published in PloS one (30-04-2018)“…For individuals, status is derived both from their personal attributes and the groups with whom they are affiliated. Depending on the performance of their…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
Food sharing networks in lowland Nicaragua: An application of the social relations model to count data
Published in Social networks (01-07-2014)“…•We implement the multilevel Social Relations Model (SRM) for count data as a network response variable.•We examine gifts of meat exchanged over a yearlong…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
Hunting Dogs in the Lowland Neotropics
Published in Journal of Anthropological Research (01-12-2009)“…Once absent in much of Amazonia, dogs are now commonly used for hunting throughout the lowland Neotropics. Although some ethnographers have questioned their…”
Get full text
Journal Article Web Resource -
7
Hunting with Dogs in Nicaragua: An Optimal Foraging Approach
Published in Current anthropology (01-10-2008)“…Although dogs are used by subsistence hunters in many locations throughout the world, hunters with dogs have not been studied from an optimal foraging…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
Invariances in the architecture of pride across small-scale societies
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-08-2018)“…Becoming valuable to fellow group members so that one would attract assistance in times of need is a major adaptive problem. To solve it, the individual needs…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
Is a downwards head tilt a cross-cultural signal of dominance? Evidence for a universal visual illusion
Published in Scientific reports (10-01-2022)“…The present pre-registered research provides the first evidence that a downwards head tilt is sufficient to communicate dominance from a neutral facial…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Timing, Initiators, and Causes of Divorce in a Mayangna/Miskito Community in Nicaragua
Published in Social sciences (Basel) (06-06-2021)“…There exists a paucity of evolution-oriented research focusing on why relationships end, particularly in comparison to the substantial literature centered…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Heterogeneity of hunting ability and nutritional status among domestic dogs in lowland Nicaragua
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-02-2012)“…In past and modern human societies, dogs have played an important role as hunting companions. Given considerable ethnographic evidence that dogs vary in their…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Socioecology shapes child and adolescent time allocation in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence forager societies
Published in Scientific reports (16-05-2022)“…A key issue distinguishing prominent evolutionary models of human life history is whether prolonged childhood evolved to facilitate learning in a skill- and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
Biology’s Best Friend: Bridging Disciplinary Gaps to Advance Canine Science
Published in Integrative and comparative biology (01-07-2021)“…Synopsis The rich history and global abundance of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) present a unique opportunity and an ideal model for interdisciplinary…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
Does Wealth Predict Health Among Dogs in a Protected Area?
Published in Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal (01-12-2021)“…As the world's most ubiquitous carnivore, domestic dogs maintain unique proximity to human populations. Partly because dogs potentially serve as hosts of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Evidence of direct and indirect reciprocity in network-structured economic games
Published in Communications psychology (22-05-2024)“…Formal theoretical models propose that cooperative networks can be maintained when individuals condition behavior on social standing. Here, we empirically…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
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
Published in Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal (01-04-2013)“…When adult males are temporarily away from the household, observational evidence suggests cross-cultural and intra-cultural variation in the effects of their…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
Economic and demographic predictors of dietary variation and nutritional indicators in Nicaragua
Published in American journal of human biology (01-07-2018)“…Objectives We measured carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios in a contemporary population, and tested how the isotopic variability relates to measures of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies
Published in Current anthropology (01-02-2013)“…Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Most Dogs Are Not NATIVE Dogs
Published in Integrative and comparative biology (23-07-2021)“…Abstract Studies of dogs have proliferated among canine scientists, aided in part by the logistical convenience of working with owned animals whose care is…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Fur Color and Nutritional Status Predict Hair Cortisol Concentrations of Dogs in Nicaragua
Published in Frontiers in veterinary science (19-10-2020)“…This study examined the relationships between hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) and sex, age, nutritional status (as determined by body condition scores, or…”
Get full text
Journal Article