Publications

• Hawkes, Kristen (2023). Life history impacts on infancy & the evolution of human social cognition . Frontieers in Psychology. Vol. 14, 1197378. Published, 11/2023.
  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsy...
• O'Connell, JF, Hawkes, Kristen co-author & Larsen, Clark S (editor) (2023). Behavioral Ecology: Background & illustrative example Chapter 19 in A Companion to Biological Anthropology. (pp. 314-328). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published, 03/2023.
• Le A & Kim PS, Hawkes K (2022). Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?. Theor Pop Biol. Vol. 145, 126-135. Published, 12/2022.
• Hawkes K (2022). Somatic maintenance/reproduction tradeoffs and human evolution . (pp. e128). Vol. 45. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Published, 08/2022.
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• Herzog N & Hawkes, Pruetz J (2022). Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes. J Hum Evol. Vol. 167, 103199. Published, 08/2022.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103193
• Loo SL & D Rose, K Hawkes & PS Kim (2021). Mate guarding arises due to partner scarcity, even if the father doesn't help at all. Theor Pop Biol. Vol. 142, 100-113. Published, 03/2021.
• Loo SL & Weight MD, Kim PS (2020). Why males compete rather than care, with an application to supplying collective goods. Bull Math Biol. Published, 10/2020.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-0...
• Herzog N (2020). Fire’s impact on threat detection and risk perception among vervet monkeys: Implications for hominin evolution. J Hum Evol. Vol. 145. Published, 10/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102836
• Orr TJ & , M Burns, K Hawkes, KE Holekamp, KA Hook, CC Josefson, AA Kimmitt, AK Lewis, SE :ipsutz, SS Lynch, LK Sirot, DJ Stadtmaur, NL Staub, MF Wolfner, V Hassen (2020). It takes two to Tango: Including a femal perspective in reproductive biology. Integ Comp Biol. Vol. 60, 796-813. Published, 09/2020.
• Hawkes K (2020). The centrality of ancestral grandmothers in human evolution . Integ Comp Biol. Vol. 60, 765-781. Published, 09/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa029
• Hawkes K (2020). Cognitive consequences of our grandmothering life history: cultural learning begins in infancy. Phil Trans R Soc. B. Vol. 375. Published, 06/2020.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0501
• Herzog N & C Parker, E Keefe & K Hawkes (2020). Fire’s impact on threat detection and risk perception among vervet monkeys: Implications for hominin evolution. J Hum Evol. Vol. 145, 102886. Published, 06/2020.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102836
• Loo SL & MD Weight, K Hawkes & PS Kim (2020). Why males compete rather than care, with an application to supplying collective goods. Bull Math Biol. Vol. 82, 82-125. Published, 05/2020.
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-0...
• PS Kim & JS McQueen (2019). Why does women’s fertility end in mid-life? Grandmothering & age at last birth. J Theor Biol. Vol. 126, 84-91. Published, 06/2019.
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• Rose D & PS Kim (2019). Adult sex ratio as an index for male strategy in primates. theor Popul Biol. Vol. 126, 40-50. Published, 06/2019.
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• Parker, CH & Hawkes, K; editor H Callan (2018). Optimal foraging theory. (pp. 4556-4464). Vol. VII. John Wiley & sons; The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology,. Published, 10/2018.
• Hawkes, Kristen & Finlay, Barbara (2018). Mammalian brain development and our grandmothering life history. Physiology & Behavior. Vol. 193, 55-68. Published, 09/2018.
• Hawkes, Kristen & JF O’Connell & N Blurton Jones (2018). Hunter-gatherers & human evolution: a very selective review. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Vol. 165, 777-800. Published, 02/2018.
• Loo SL & Chan MH, Hawkes K, Kim PS (2017). Further mathematical modelling of mating sex ratios & male strategies with special relevance to human Life history . Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Vol. 9, 1907-1922. Published, 08/2017.
• Chan MH & Hawkes, Kim PS (2017). Modelling the evolution of traits in a two-sex population, with an application to grandmothering. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Vol. 79, 2132-2148. Published, 07/2017.
• Hawkes K & Chisholm, LA Fairbanks, J Johow, E Kalcher-Sommersguter, K Liebal, MMyowa-Yamakoshi, VSommer, B Thierry, BL Finlay (2017). Primate Infancies: Causes and Consequences of Varying Care. (pp. 69-107). Vol. The Cultural Nature of Attachm, MIT Press. Published, 07/2017.
• Loo SL & Hawkes K, Kim PS (2017). Evolution of male strategies with sex-ratio dependent payoffs: Connecting pair bonds with grandmothering. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Vol. 372, 20170041. Published, 07/2017.
• Darimont CT & Codding BF, Hawkes K (2017). Why men trophy hunt. Biology Letters. Vol. 13, 0160909. Published, 03/2017.
• Hawkes, Kristen, JS Chisholm, LA Fairbanks, J Johow, E Kalcher-Sommersguter, K Liebal, MMyowa-Yamakoshi, VSommer, B Thierry, BL Finlay & editors, H Keller & KA Bard (2017). Primate Infancies: Causes and Consequences of Varying Care. (pp. 69-107). MIT Press. Published, 01/2017.
• Hawkes K, 2016. Ethnoarchaeology and Plio-Pleistocene sites: some lessons from the Hadza. J Anthropol Arch. 44: 158–165. Published, 12/2016.
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• Herzog NM, ER Keefe, CH Parker, K Hawkes 2016 What's burning got to do with it? Primate foraging opportunities in fire-modified landscapes. Am J Phys Anth. 159(3): 432-441. Article first published online: 24 OCT 2015DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22885. Published, 03/2016.
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• Parker CH, ER Keefe, NM Herzog, JF O’Connell, K Hawkes 2016. The pyrophilic primate hypothesis. Evol Anthropol 25(2):54-63. Published, 03/2016.
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• Chan M, K Hawkes, PS Kim. 2016. Evolution of longevity, age at last birth and sexual conflict with grandmothering. J Theor Biol. 393:145-157. Published, 03/2016.
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• Hawkes, Kristen (2016). Genomic evidence for the evolution of human postmenopausal longevity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 113(1), 17-18. Published, 01/2016.
  http://www.pnas.org/content/113/1/17.full.pdf
• Coxworth JE, PS Kim, JS McQueen & K Hawkes 2015 Grandmothering life histories and human pair bonding. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 112 (38): 11806-11811. Published, 09/2015.
  http://www.pnas.org/content/112/38/11806.short
• Cloutier TC, JE Coxworth & K Hawkes 2015 Age-related decline in ovarian follicle stocks differ between chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans. Age 37:1-9. Published, 02/2015.
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• Tackney J, Cawthon RM, Coxworth JE & Hawkes K 2014. Blood cell telomere lengths and shortening rates of chimpanzee and human females. Am J Hum Biol 26:452–460. Published, 07/2014.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22...
• Kim PS, McQueen JS, Coxworth JE & Hawkes K. 2014. Grandmothering drives the evolution of longevity in a probabilistic model. Journal of Theoretical Biology 353:84-94. Published, 06/2014.
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• Herzog NM, CH Parker, ER Keefe, JE Coxworth, A Barrett & K Hawkes 2014 Fire and home range expansion: A behavioral response to burning among savannah dwelling vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops). Am J Phys Anth 154 (4): 554–560. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22550. Published, 06/2014.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22...
• Parker CR, WE Grizzle, JK Blevins & K Hawkes 2014. Development of adrenal cortical zonation and expression of key elements of adrenal androgen production in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) from birth to adulthood. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 387: 35–43. Published, 04/2014.
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• Hawkes K 2014 Primate sociality to human cooperation, why us & not them? Hum Nat 25 (1):28-48. Published, 12/2013.
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12110-...
• Hawkes K & Coxworth JE 2013 Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity: A Review of findings and future directions. Evolutionary Anthropology 22(6):294–302. Published, 11/2013.
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• Blevins JK, Coxworth JE, Herndon JG & Hawkes K. 2013 Brief communication: Adrenal androgens and aging: Female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) compared with women. Am J Phys Anthropol 151 (4):643-8. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22300. Published, 08/2013.
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• Hawkes, K., Coxworth, J. E. & Kim, P. S. (2012). Increased longevity evolves from grandmothering. The Royal Society. Vol. 279(1749), 4880-4884. Published, 2012.
• Kim PS, JE Coxworth & K Hawkes. 2012. Increased longevity evolves from grandmothering. Proc Roy Soc B 279: 4880–4884 published online 24 October 2012 doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1751. Chosen by the Faculty of 1000 http://f1000.com/prime/717965135. Published, 10/24/2012.
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• Hawkes K. 2012 Grandmothers and their consequences. Contribution to Calcano & Fuentes, What makes us Human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology. Evol Anthropol 21(5):189. Published, 10/2012.
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• Hawkes K, KR Smith & JK Blevins. 2012 Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: a role for heterogeneity? Evolution 66(1):103-14. Published, 08/2012.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1558-...
• Hawkes K. 2012 Stag hunts or rearing environments? comment on M Tomasello et al. Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis. Curr Anthropol 53(6):687-88. Published, 01/11/2012.
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• Hawkes K, KR Smith & JK Blevins. 2011 Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: a role for heterogeneity? Evolution 66(1):103-14. Published, 08/2011.
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• Hawkes K, P Kim, B Kennedy, R Bohlender, J Hawkes 2011 A reappraisal of grandmothering and natural selection. Proc. R. Soc. B 278:1936-1938. Published, 04/06/2011.
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• Hawkes K, P Kim, B Kennedy, R Bohlender, J Hawks 2011 A reappraisal of grandmothering and natural selection. Proc. R. Soc. B 278: 1936-1938. Published, 04/2011.
  http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/278...
• Smith, Ken R. & Hawkes, Kristen (2010). Do women stop early? Similarities in fertility decline in humans and chimpanzees: Hawkes & Smith. Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 1204(1), 43-53. Published, 2010.
• Coxworth, James E., O’Connell, James F. & Hawkes, Kristen (2010). Family Provisioning Is Not the Only Reason Men Hunt: A Comment on Gurven and Hill. University of Chicago Press. Vol. 51(2), 259-264. Published, 2010.
• Hawkes, K. (2010). Colloquium Paper: How grandmother effects plus individual variation in frailty shape fertility and mortality: Guidance from human-chimpanzee comparisons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 107(Supplement_2), 8977-8984. Published, 2010.
• Coxworth, J. E. & Hawkes, K. (2010). Ovarian follicle loss in humans and mice: lessons from statistical model comparison. Oxford University Press (OUP). Vol. 25(7), 1796-1805. Published, 2010.
• Hawkes K, Smith KR 2010 Do women stop early? similarities in fertility decline between humans and chimpanzees. Ann NY Acad Sci 1204:43-53. Published, 08/2010.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-...
• Hawkes, K. 2010 Der Großmutter-Effekt, In Evolution und Kultur des Menschen, edited and translated by EP Fischer und Klaus Wiegandt, pp 170-196. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Invited talk, not keynote. Written version submitted June 2009 to be published in German. Published, 07/2010.
• O’Connell, JF, J Allen & K Hawkes.2010 Modeling Sahul colonization: Implications for the origins of seafaring. . In The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring, edited by A. Anderson, J. Barrett, and K. Boyle. Pp 57-68. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. Published, 06/2010.
• Coxworth JE & Hawkes K 2010. Ovarian follicle loss in humans and mice: Lessons from statistical modeling comparison. Human Reproduction 25(7):1296-1805. Published, 05/2010.
• Hawkes, K. 2010. Grandmother effects, heterogeneity, and the evolution of human aging: Guidance from human-chimpanzee comparisons. Proc Nat Acad Sci (USA) 107 (Supplement 2): 8977-8984. Published, 04/2010.
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• Hawkes, K, JF O’Connell & JE Coxworth. 2010 Family Provisioning is not the only reason men hunt. Current Anthropology. 52(2):259-264. Published, 02/2010.
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• Hawkes, Kristen (2009). It takes a village. Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 18(5), 228-229. Published, 2009.
• Robson, Shannen L., Smith, Ken R. & Hawkes, Kristen (2009). Mortality and fertility rates in humans and chimpanzees: How within-species variation complicates cross-species comparisons. Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 21(4), 578-586. Published, 2009.
• HERNDON, J, CHENNAREDDI, L, HOPKINS, W, LACREUSE, A, EASLEY, K, GOULD, K, CHEN, J, HAWKES, K & WIJAYAWARDANA, S (2009). 12. Brain and reproductive aging in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Elsevier BV. Vol. 44(1-2), 129-129. Published, 2009.
• Smith, Ken R. & Hawkes, Kristen (2009). Brief communication: Evaluating grandmother effects. Wiley-Blackwell. Vol. 140(1), 173-176. Published, 2009.
• Hawkes, K & KR Smith. 2009 Evaluating grandmother effects. Am J Phys Anthropol 140: 173-176. Published, 09/2009.
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• Hawkes, K, KR Smith, & SL Robson. 2009 Mortality and fertility rates in humans and chimpanzees: how within-species variation complicates Cross-species comparisons. Am J Hum Biol. 21:578–586. Published, 06/2009.
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• Hawkes, K. Review of Mothers and Others: The evolution of human understanding, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (2009 Belknap; Harvard) Evolutionary Anthropology 18:228-229. Published, 2009.
• Lacreuse, A., Herndon, J. G., Wijayawardana, S. R., Gould, K. G., Chennareddi, L., Hawkes, K., Chen, J. & Easley, K. A. (2008). Menstrual Cycles Continue into Advanced Old Age in the Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Society for the Study of Reproduction. Vol. 79(3), 407-412. Published, 2008.
• Anderson, D., Hawkes, K., Jones, K.P., Walker, L.C., Robson, S.L. & Lacreuse, A. (2007). Depletion of Ovarian Follicles with Age in Chimpanzees: Similarities to Humans. Society for the Study of Reproduction. Vol. 77(2), 247-251. Published, 2007.
• Jones KP, LC Walker, D Anderson, A Lacreuse, SL Robson, K Hawkes. 2007. Depeltion of ovarian follicles with age in chimpanzees: Similarities to humans. Biology of Reproduction 77:247-251. Published, 05/2007.
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• Slow life histories and human evolution. In The Evolution of Human Life History. Kristen Hawkes and Richard Paine, eds. Santa Fe and Oxford, SAR Press, 95-126. Published, 10/2006.
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• Robson SL, van Schaik CP, Hawkes K. The derived features of human life history. In The Evolution of Human Life History. K. Hawkes and R Paine, eds, Santa Fe and Oxford, SAR Press. Accepted, 08/05/2006.
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• Hawkes K & RR Paine. 2006. The Evolution of Human Life History. School of American Research Press: Santa Fe. Published, 07/2006.
• Life history theory and human evolution. In The Evolution of Human Life History. Kristen Hawkes and Richard Paine, eds. Santa Fe and Oxford, SAR Press, 45-93. Published, 06/2006.
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• O'Connell, J.F. & Hawkes, K. (2005). How old is human longevity?. Elsevier BV. Vol. 49(5), 650-653. Published, 2005.
• Cashdan, Elizabeth, Hawkes, Kristen, Boster, James, Handwerker, W Penn, Cronk, Lee, Tooby, John, Manson, Joseph, Lancaster, Jane & Demarest, Arthur (2005). Correspondence. Wiley. Vol. 46(4), 3-4. Published, 2005.
• Hawkes K & NG Blurton Jones 2005 Human age structures, paleodemography, and the Grandmother Hypothesis. In Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life, edited by E. Voland, A. Chasiotis, and W. Schiefenhovel, pp. 118-140. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (corrected from the published version). Published, 06/2005.
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• Hawkes, Kristen (2004). Human longevity: The grandmother effect. Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 428(6979), 128-129. Published, 2004.
• Hawkes K. 2004 Mating, parenting and the evolution of human pair bonds. In Kinship and Behavior in Primates , edited by B. Chapais & C. Berman, pp 443-473. Oxford University Press. Published, 04/2004.
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• Hawkes K 2004 The grandmother effect (News & Views on Lahdenpera et al in same issue) Nature 428: 128-9. Published, 02/2004.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell & N. G. Blurton Jones 2003 Human life histories: Primate tradeoffs, grandmothering socioecology, and the fossil record. In Primate Life Histories & Socioecology, edited by P. Kappeler and M. Pereira, pp 204-227. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Published, 10/2003.
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• Hawkes K. 2003. Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity. American Journal of Human Biology 15:380-400. Published, 06/2003.
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• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes, K. Lupo and N. G. Blurton Jones. 2002. Male strategies and Plio-Pleistocene archaeology. Journal of Human Evolution 43:831-872. Published, 12/2002.
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• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N. G. Blurton Jones 2002 Meat-eating, grandmothering and the evolution of early human diets. In Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution, edited by P. Unger & M. Teaford, pp. 49-60. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey. Published, 10/2002.
• Blurton Jones, N., Kristen Hawkes and James F. O'Connell. 2002 Antiquity of postreproductive life: Are there modern impacts on hunter-gatherer postreproductive life spans? American Journal of Human Biology 14:184-205. Published, 06/2002.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell and N. G. Blurton Jones 2001 Hadza meat sharing. Evolution and Human Behavior 22(2001):113-142. Published, 06/2001.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell and N.G. Blurton Jones. 2001. Hunting and nuclear families. Current Anthropology 42:5, pp. 681-709. Published, 05/2001.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell, N. G. Blurton Jones, H. Alvarez and E. L. Charnov 2000 The grandmother hypothesis and human evolution. In Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by L. Cronk, N. Chagnon & W. Irons, pp. 231-252. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Published, 10/2000.
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• Hawkes, K. 2000. Big game hunting and the evolution of egalitarian societies: Lessons from the Hadza. In Hierarchies in Action: Cui Bono?, edited by M. Diehl. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper 27:59-83. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Published, 09/2000.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell and N. G. Blurton Jones. 2000. Why do women have mid-life menopause? Grandmothering and the evolution of human longevity. In 10th Reinier de Graff Symposium: Female Reproductive Aging, edited by E. R. te Velde and F. J. Broekmans, pp. 27-42. New York: Pantheon. Published, 06/2000.
• Blurton Jones, N. G., F. Marlowe, K. Hawkes and J. F. O'Connell. 2000. Hunter-gatherer divorce rates and the paternal provisioning theory of human monogamy. In Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by L. Cronk, N. Chagnon & W. Irons, pp. 65-84. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Published, 02/2000.
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• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes, and N.G. Blurton Jones. 1999. Grandmothering and the evolution of Homo erectus. Journal of Human Evolution 36:461-485. Published, 05/1999.
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• Blurton Jones, N. G., K. Hawkes, and J. F. O'Connell. 1999. Some current ideas about the evolution of the human life history. In Comparative Primate Socioecology, edited by P. C. Lee, pp. 140-166. Cambridge University Press. Published, 02/1999.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell, N.G. Blurton Jones, H. Alvarez, and E.L. Charnov.. 1998. Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 95, pp. 1336-1339. Published, 08/1998.
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• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell and L. Rogers. 1997. The behavioral ecology of modern hunter-gatherers and human evolution Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:29-32. Published, 10/1997.
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• Hawkes K, O'Connell JF, Blurton Jones NG. 1997. Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans. Current Anthropology 38:4, 551-577. Published, 09/1997.
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• Blurton Jones, N. G., K. Hawkes and J. F. O'Connell. 1997. Why do Hadza children forage? In Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development, edited by N. Segal, G. E. Weisfeld, and CC. Weisfeld, pp 279-313. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Published, 06/1997.
• Hawkes K. 1996. Foraging differences between men and women: Behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor. In Power, Sex and Tradition: The Archaeology of Human Ancestry, S. Shennan and J. Steele, eds., 283-305. London: Routledge. Published, 10/1996.
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• Behavioral ecology. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Edited by D. Levinson and M. Ember. Sponsored by the HRAF. Vol 1: 121- 125. Henry Holt Inc. Published, 08/1996.
• Hawkes K. 1996. The evolutionary basis of sex variations in the use of natural resources: Human examples. Population and Environment. 18:161-173. Published, 05/1996.
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• Blurton Jones, N. G., K. Hawkes and J. F. O'Connell. 1996. The global process and local ecology: How should we explain differences between the Hadza and the !Kung? In Cultural Diversity among Twentieth Century Foragers: An African Perspective, edited by S. Kent, pp. 159-187. Cambridge: CUP. Published, 02/1996.
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• Hawkes, K., A. R. Rogers and E. L. Charnov. 1995. The male's dilemma: increased offspring production is more paternity to steal . Evolutionary Ecology 9:662-677. Published, 06/1995.
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• Hawkes, K., J.F. O'Connell and N.G. Blurton Jones. 1995. Hadza children's foraging: Juvenile dependency, social arrangements and mobility among hunter-gatherers. Current Anthropology 36:4, 688-700. Published, 02/1995.
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• Blurton Jones, N.G., K. Hawkes and P. Draper. 1994. Differences between Hadza and !Kung children's work: Affluence of Practical Reason? In Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research, E. S. Burch Jr and L. J. Ellanna eds, pp 189-215. Oxford: Berg. Published, 07/1994.
• Blurton Jones, N.G., K. Hawkes and P. Draper. 1994. Foraging returns of !Kung adults and children: Why didn't !Kung children forage? Journal of Anthropological Research 50(3): 217-248). Published, 02/1994.
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• Hawkes, K. 1994. On life history evolution (a comment on Chisholm). Current Anthropology 35(1):39-41. Published, 02/1994.
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• Blurton Jones, N.G., L. Smith, K. Hawkes, J. O'Connell and C. Kamuzora. 1993. Demography of the Hadza, an increasing and high density population of savanna foragers. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89:1159-1181. Published, 08/1993.
• Hawkes K. 1993. Why hunter-gatherers work: An ancient version of the problem of public goods. Current Anthropology 34 (4):341-361. Published, 02/1993.
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• Hawkes K. 1993. On why male foragers hunt and share food: Reply to Hill and Kaplan. Current Anthropology 34(5):706-710. Published, 02/1993.
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• Hawkes, K. 1992. Sharing and collective action. In Ecology, Evolution , and Human Behavior, E.A. Smith and B. Winterhalder, eds., pp 269-300. Aldine de Gruyter. Published, 09/1992.
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• O'Connell, J.F., K. Hawkes and N.G. Blurton Jones. 1993. Patterns in the distribution, site structure, and assemblage composition of Hadza kill-butchering sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:319-345. Published, 05/1992.
• Hawkes, K. & J. F. O'Connell. 1992. On optimal foraging models and subsistence transitions. Current Anthropology 33(1): 63-66. Published, 05/1992.
  http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/usp...
• Hawkes K. 1992. On sharing and work (a comment on Bird-David). Current Anthropology 33(4): 404-407. Published, 02/1992.
  http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/usp...
• Vigilant, L., M. Stoneking, H. Harpending, K. Hawkes & A.C. Wilson. 1991. African populations and the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA. Science 253:1503-1507. Published, 10/1991.
• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N.G. Blurton Jones. 1991.Hunting income patterns among the Hadza: Big game, common goods, foraging goals and the evolution of the human diet. Philosophical Transactions:Biological Sciences 334(1270): 243-250. Also in: Foraging Strategies and Natural Diet of Monkey's, Apes, and Humans, edited by A. Whiten and M. Widdowson (1992), pp. 83-91. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Published, 08/1991.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes_al91Ha...
• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N.G. Blurton Jones. 1991 Distribution of activities at Hadza base camps: Implications for analyses of archaeological site structure. In The Interpretation of Archaeological Spatial Patterning, edited by E.M. Kroll and T.D. Price, pp. 61-76. Plenum Press, New York. Published, 04/1991.
• Showing off: Tests of an hypothesis about men's foraging goals. Ethology and Sociobiology 12:29-54. Published, 01/1991.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes91showi...
• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N. G. Blurton Jones. 1990. Reanalysis of large mammal body part transport among the Hadza. Journal of Archaeological Science 17:301-316. Published, 05/1990.
• Hawkes K 1990. Why do men hunt? Some benefits for risky strategies. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, edited by E. Cashdan, pp. 145-166. Boulder: Westview Press. Published, 02/1990.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes90WhyMe...
• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell and N. G. Blurton Jones. 1989. Hardworking Hadza grandmothers. In Comparative Socioecology: The Behavioural Ecology of Humans and Other Mammals, edited by V. Standen & R.A. Foley, pp. 341-366. London: Basil Blackwell. Published, 06/1989.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes_al89ha...
• Blurton Jones, N. G., K. Hawkes and J. F. O'Connell. 1989. Modelling and measuring the costs of children in two foraging societies. In Comparative Socioecology: The Behavioural Ecology of Humans and Other Mammals, edited by V. Standen & R. Foley, pp. 367-390. London: Basil Blackwell. Published, 02/1989.
• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N. G. Blurton Jones. 1988. Hadza scavenging: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene hominid subsistence. Current Anthropology 29:356-363. Published, 07/1988.
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• O'Connell, J. F., K. Hawkes and N. G. Blurton Jones. 1988. Hadza hunting, butchering, and bone transport and their archaeological implications. Journal of Anthropological Research 44:113-61. Published, 03/1988.
• Hawkes, K. & E. L. Charnov. 1988 Human fertility: Individual or group benefit? Current Anthropology 29(3):469-71. Published, 02/1988.
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• Hill, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hawkes and A. M. Hurtado. 1987. Foraging decisions among Ache hunter-gatherers: New data and implications for optimal foraging models. Ethology and Sociobiology 8:1-36. Published, 10/1987.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hill_al87Fora...
• Hawkes, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hill and A. M. Hurtado. 1987. Ache at the settlement: Contrasts between farming and foraging. Human Ecology 15(2):133-161. Published, 08/1987.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes_al87Ac...
• Hawkes, K., K. Hill, H. Kaplan and A. M. Hurtado. 1987. A problem of bias in the ethnographic use of scan sampling. Journal of Anthropological Research 43(3):239-245. Published, 05/1987.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes_al87bi...
• Hawkes K. 1987. How much food do foragers need? In Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits, edited by M. Harris & E. Ross, pp. 341-355. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Published, 01/1987.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/Hawkes87HowMu...
• Hurtado, A. M., K. Hawkes, K. Hill and H. Kaplan. 1985. Female subsistence strategies among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology 13(1):1-28. Published, 09/1985.
• Hill, K., H. Kaplan, K. Hawkes and A.M. Hurtado. 1985. Men's time allocation to subsistence work among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology 13(1):29-47. Published, 06/1985.
• Hawkes, K., J. F. O'Connell, K. Hill and E.L. Charnov. 1985. How much is enough? Hunters and limited needs. Ethology and Sociobiology 6:3-15. Published, 03/1985.
• Hawkes, K. & J. F. O'Connell. 1985 Optimal foraging models and the case of the !Kung. American Anthropologist 87:401-405. Published, 01/1985.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/hawkesOConnel...
• O'Connell, J. F. and K. Hawkes. 1984. Food choice and foraging sites among the Alyawara. Journal of Anthropological Research 40(4):504-535. Published, 10/1984.
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• Kaplan, H., K. Hill, K. Hawkes and A. M. Hurtado. 1984. Food sharing among Ache hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay. Current Anthropology 25(1):113-115. Published, 08/1984.
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• Hill, K., K. Hawkes, A.M. Hurtado and H. Kaplan. 1984. Seasonal variance in the diet of Ache hunter-gatherers in Eastern Paraguay. Human Ecology 12:145-180. Published, 02/1984.
• Hill, K. and K. Hawkes. 1983. Neotropical hunting among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. In Adaptations of Native Amazonians, edited by R. Hames and W. Vickers, pp. 139-188. New York: Academic Press. Published, 04/1983.
• Hawkes, K., K. Hill & J. F. O'Connell. 1982. Why hunters gather: Optimal foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. American Ethnologist 9:379-398. Published, 08/1982.
  http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~hawkes/HawkesHillOCo...
• Hawkes K. 1982. Kin selection and culture. American Ethnologist 10:345-363. Published, 01/1982.
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• Hawkes K. 1981. A third explanation for female infanticide. Human Ecology 9:71-107. Published, 07/1981.
• Hawkes K & JF O'Connell 1981. Affluent hunters? Some comments in light of the Alyawara case. American Anthropologist 83:622-626. Published, 02/1981.
• Hawkes K. 1978. Cooperation in Binumarien: Evidence for Sahlins' Model. Man (N.S.) 12:459-483. Published, 08/1978.
• Hawkes K. 1978. Another explanation for bifurcate generation kinship nomenclature: The Binumarien case. Journal of Anthropological Research 34(3):369-391. Published, 05/1978.
• Hawkes K 1977. The assignment of relationship terms in Binumarien. Ethnology 16:309-329. Published, 09/1977.
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• Hage, P. and K. Hawkes. 1975. Binumarien color categories. Ethnology 14:287-300. Published, 06/1975.
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Research Statement

Research Keywords

• primate life history
• longevity, senescence, follicular atresia, menopause, DHEAS
• foraging strategies, food sharing, status competition

Presentations

• Comparative infancies & the evolution of human social appetites. Research Seminar IAST Toulouse March 23. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2023.
• Why Us, Not Them? The centrality of grandmothers in human evolution. Darwin Day NHMU, SLC UT Feb 14 . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2023.
• Evolution of human life history: subsistence, mating sex ratios, carnivore competition. with JF O’Connell Cambridge BiolAnth Seminar Series 27 October. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2022.
• Hadza men’s big game hunting returns 1985-85 O’Connell & Hawkes. Living Livelihoods, Schmitt & Lupo chairs CHAGS13 University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland June 30. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/2022.
• Ancestral grandmothers & human evolution. Darwin Day Talk. Center for the Study of Human Evolution, NYU . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/11/2021.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQSJ8rGmKw
• Sexual selection, carnivory, and life history evolution in the human radiation. DySoC / Exeter Webinar Series Evolution & Social Systems. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2021.
  https://www.dysoc.org/ess_webinars#sp3
• Ancient Grandmothers, African Savannas CARTA virtual symposium: Exploring the human-ape paradox. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2020.
  https://carta.anthropogeny.org/mediaplayer/play/32...
• The centrality of ancestral grandmothers in human evolution. Symposium: Reproduction: The Female Perspective from an Integrative & Comparative Framework. Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology Austin TX. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2020.
• Grandmothers & Human Evolution. Leakey Foundation Lecture. Houston Museum of Natural Science. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2019.
  https://youtu.be/PJk00JpOeVQ
• Grandmothers & Human Evolution. Julia Booms Memorial Lecture. Harvard, Cambridge MA,. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2019.
• Grandmothers & Human Evolution. 6th Intl Conf Polish Soc. for Human & Evolution Studies, Keynote. Prague,. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2019.
• Hunter-Gatherers: Life History & Reproduction. CARTA 10th Anniversary: Revisiting the Agenda. SanDiego. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2019.
  https://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=347...
• Cognitive consequences of ancestral grandmothering? Expanding brains and the social ecology of human development. Life history & learning workshop. Berkeley CA . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/26/2018.
• Grandmothering and Human Evolution: Why separate nuclear families can make things hard on everyone. NAS expert meeting: Leveraging rarely investigated pops for research on aging. Washinton DC . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/02/2018.
• KRISTEN HAWKES (2018) The Evolutionary Importance of Mothers and Grandmothers. Other, Presented, 05/09/2018.
  http://insitome.libsyn.com/website/the-evolutionar...
• Grandmothers & human evolution. Anthropology. SMU, Dallas, Texas. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/22/2018.
• Grandmothering & Human Evolution: Some updates. Anthropology Colloquium. Univ. of Toronto. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/05/2017.
• Visiting Lecturer. Human Biology. Stanford University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2017.
• Psychology Colloquium. Cornell University, Ithaca. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/29/2017.
• Jane B Hart Lecture. George Washington U. Wash DC . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/22/2017.
• The Grandmother Hypothesis & Human Evolution. Iowa State Lectures Program. Iowa State Univ. Ames IA October 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF95Ib6ha3s. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2016.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF95Ib6ha3s
• Grandmothers & Human Evolution. Sydney Science Festival. Univ of Sydney. Sydney Australia http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/professor_kristen_hawkes.shtml. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2016.
  http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2016/pr...
• Grandmas. w/ Zacha Rosen “Not what you think” #403 FBI radio https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/403-grandmas-kristen-hawkes/id954086718?i=1000375672976&mt=2. Other, Presented, 08/2016.
  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/403-grandmas-k...
• Grandmothers & human evolution. U of Penn, Psychology Department, Philadelphia PA . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/16/2015.
• Grandmothering, human evolution, and some aging physiology. Dep’t Seminar, Biology U of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/05/2015.
• Human life history evolution. Visiting Lecturer. Human Biology. Stanford University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2015.
• Ethnoarchaeology plus a theory of behavior: Jim O’Connell’s Hadza work. SAA Symposium, A sense of question: Papers in honor of James F O’Connell. San Francisco . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2015.
• Outstanding Professor Series. Hinkley Institute of Politics. U of U. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/01/2015.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ0bJEC9w
• Grandmothers and Human Evolution School for Advanced Research Lecture Series. Santa Fe NM. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/19/2015.
  http://sarweb.org/?membership_lecture_kristen_haw...
• Grandmothers & human childrearing. University Women’s Club, U of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/10/2014.
• Grandmothers & human evolution. Tryon Lecture UC Berkeley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMi2w52dKCQ. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/15/2014.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMi2w52dKCQ
• Grandmothers & the evolution of human sociality. Development Group. Psychology. UC Berkeley. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/13/2014.
• Grandmothers’ consequences for human evolution? Biology Seminar Series. U of U. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/02/2014.
• Grandmothers & the evolution of human longevity. Superhuman Radio. Other, Presented, 07/30/2014.
• Grandmothers & the extended family. CARTA symposium: From Birth to Grandmotherhood: in human evolution. UCSD. San Diego http://www.uctv.tv/shows/CARTA-Birth-to-Grandmotherhood-Childrearing-in-Human-Evolution-Kristen-Hawkes-Grandmothers-and-the-Extended-Family-28036. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/21/2014.
  http://www.uctv.tv/shows/CARTA-Birth-to-Grandmothe...
• Grandmothers & human evolution. Margo Wilson Memorial Lecture. McMaster University. Hamilton Ontario Canada. October 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZvxu0zVhdA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/03/2013.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZvxu0zVhdA
• Grandmothering and Human Evolution. Department of Ecology & Evolution. University of Tennesee. Knoxville TN, February 8. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/08/2013.