Bruce Winterhalder

University of California, Davis — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

41h-index6.0kcitations124works7.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(27), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies(22), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(17), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(16), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(14)

Publications124 total

Endurance pursuit hunting among recent foragers and its relevance for hominin locomotor evolution
Journal of Human Evolution·2026
Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?
Current Anthropology·2024· 10 cited
Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 31 citedOpen Access
Special Issue on Dogs – Introduction
Human Ecology·2021Open Access
Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting
Human Ecology·2021· 8 cited
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory·2021· 37 cited
The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation
Science Advances·2020· 101 citedOpen Access
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates
Social Psychological and Personality Science·2020· 59 citedOpen Access
Modelling encounter-conditional search using annotated GPS tracking data
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)·2020
Preface
2019Open Access
12. The Ideal Free Distribution, Food Production, and the Colonization of Oceania
2019· 94 cited
1. Behavioral Ecology and the Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Agriculture
2019· 135 cited
Twenty. An Ecological Model for the Emergence of Institutionalized Social Hierarchies on California’s Northern Channel Islands
2019· 63 cited
Regional patterns of pastoralist migrations under the push of reduced precipitation in imperial China
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2019· 11 cited
Nahua mushroom gatherers use area-restricted search strategies that conform to marginal value theorem predictions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2019· 74 citedOpen Access
The Life History Of Human Foraging: Cross-Cultural And Individual Variation
2019· 25 citedOpen Access
The Effects of Households and Labor Requirements on Intracommunity Boundary Formation, Settlement Choices, and Neighborhood Functions in Modern and Prehistoric Communities
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology·2019
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Frequent Co-authors

Douglas J. Kennett(10), Cody T. Ross(7), Eric Alden Smith(5), Richard McElreath(5), Claire E. Ebert(3), Christopher S. Jazwa(3), Keith M. Prufer(3), Brendan J. Culleton(2), Martha J. Macri(2), Flora Lu(2), Jacob Bartruff(2), Carol Goland(2), R. Brooke Thomas(2), Jeremy Koster(2), Kim Hill(2), Michael Gurven(2), Rebecca Bliege Bird(2), Douglas W. Bird(2), Luís Pacheco-Cobos(2), Thomas N. Headland(2)