Michael Gurven

University of California, Santa Barbara — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

77h-index25.9kcitations423works4.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(117), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(86), Primate Behavior and Ecology(43), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(33), Child Nutrition and Water Access(24)

Publications423 total

Oxytocin varies across the life course in a sex-specific way in a human subsistence population
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025Open Access
Sex Differences in Measures of Energy Expenditure and Body Composition in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults
Current Developments in Nutrition·2025Open Access
Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya
Science·2025· 2 cited
Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the developing belief network
PLoS ONE·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Inflamm-aging as a diverse and context-dependent process: From species and population differences to individual trajectories
Ageing Research Reviews·2025· 1 cited
Ectopic adipose tissue in subsistence populations with minimal coronary disease, large left atria, and very low rates of atrial fibrillation
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology·2025Open Access
Prehistoric Global Migration of Vanishing Gut Microbes With Humans
2025Open Access
Inflammaging is minimal among forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 cited
Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Physical activity mediates age differences in cognition among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists
The Journals of Gerontology Series A·2025Open Access
Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function
Science Advances·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Arterial Stiffness in Heart‐Healthy Indigenous Tsimane Forager‐Horticulturalists
Journal of the American Heart Association·2025Open Access
Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 16 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Inflammaging is minimal among forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon"
2025
Nonuniversality of inflammaging across human populations
Nature Aging·2025· 29 cited
Urbanization exacerbates age-associated declines in cardiometabolic health in Turkana and Orang Asli
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Inflammaging is minimal among forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon"
2025
Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for Wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network
2025Open Access
Cost-effective solutions for high-throughput enzymatic DNA methylation sequencing
PLoS Genetics·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Inflammaging is minimal among forager-horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon"
2025
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Frequent Co-authors

Hillard Kaplan(23), Christopher von Rueden(10), Kim Hill(8), Jonathan Stieglitz(7), Frank W. Marlowe(6), Joseph Henrich(5), Richard McElreath(5), Paul L. Hooper(5), Abigail Barr(4), Jean Ensminger(4), Natalie Henrich(4), David P. Tracer(4), Alexander Bolyanatz(4), Benjamin C. Trumble(4), Herman Pontzer(4), Brian M. Wood(4), Jeffrey Winking(4), Samuel Bowles(3), Clark Barrett(3), Juan-Camilo Cárdenas(3)