Key Publications 

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. In press. Hamilton's rule and kin competition: the Kipsigis Case. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Franzen, M. A. and M. Borgerhoff Mulder. In press. Ecological, economic, and social perspectives on cocoa production worldwide. Biodiversity and Conservation

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Caro, T and A. O. Msago. (2007). Integrating anthropological, archeological, biological and historical research in a long term conservation study in the Katavi ecosytem. Conservation Biology 21(3): 647-658 .

Hadley, C. A., M. Borgerhoff Mulder and E. Fitzherbert (2007). Seasonal food insecurity and perceived social support in rural Tanzania. Public Health Nutrition 10(6): 544-551.

Brooks, J.S., Franzen, M.A., Holmes, C.M., Grote, M. and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (2006). Testing hypotheses for the success of different conservation strategies. Conservation Biology 20 (5): 1528-1538. For an extended version see the Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Nunn, C.L. and M. Towner (2006). Macroevolutionary studies of cultural trait variation: The importance of transmission mode. Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 52-64.

Nunn, C.L., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and S. Langley (2006). Comparative methods for studying cultural trait evolution: A simulation study. Cross-Cultural Research 40(2):177-209.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. & P. Coppolillo (2005). Conservation: Linking Ecology, Economics and Culture. Princeton University Press.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2004) Are men and women really so different? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:3-6.

Paciotti, B., Hadley, C., Holmes, C., and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (2005) Grass-roots Justice in Tanzania. American Scientist 93:58-65

Caro, T. M., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and M. Moore (2003). Effects of conservation education on reasons to conserve biological diversity. Biological Conservation 114: 143-152.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2001) Using phylogenetically based comparative methods in anthropology: More questions than answers. Evolutionary Anthropology 10:99-111

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., George-Cramer, M., Eshelman, J., and A. Ortolani, (2001). A study of East African kinship and marriage using a phylogenetically-based comparative method. American Anthropologist 103(4): 1059-1082.

Smith, E.A., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and K. Hill (2001). Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: A guide to the perplexed. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16(3):128-135.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2000). Optimizing offspring: The quality-quantity tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis. Evolution and Human Behavior 21(6):390-410.

Luttbeg, B., Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and M. S. Mangel (2000). To marry or not to marry? A dynamic model of marriage behavior and demographic transition. In Cronk, L., N. A. Chagnon and W. Irons, eds. Human behavior and adaptation: An anthropological perspective. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, pp. 345-368.

Sellen, D.W. M. Borgerhoff Mulder & D. F. Sieff (2000). Fertility, offspring quality and wealth in Datoga pastoralists: Testing evolutionary models of intersexual selection. In Cronk, L., N. A. Chagnon and W. Irons, eds. Human behavior and adaptation: An anthropological perspective. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, pp. 91-114.

Ruttan, L. M. and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (1999). Are East African pastoralists truly conservationists? Current Anthropology 40(5):621-652.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M (1998). Demographic transition: Are we any closer to an evolutionary explanation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13(7):266-270.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1998). Brothers and sisters: How sibling interactions affect optimal parental allocations. Human Nature 9(2):119-162

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and W. Logsdon, eds. (1996). I’ve Been Gone Far Too Long. Oakland, CA: RDR Books.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kerr, A. and M. D. Moore (1997) Time allocation among the Kipsigis of Kenya. Volume XIV Cross Cultural Studies in Time Allocation. Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M., P.J.Richerson, N. Thornhill & E. Voland (1997). The place of behavioural ecology in the evolutionary social sciences. In Weingart, P., S. D. Mitchell, P.J. Richerson and S. Maasen, eds. Human by Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences. Erlbaum, New Jersey, pp. 253-282.

R. Boyd, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, W. Durham and P. J. Richerson (1997). Are cultural phylogenies possible? In Weingart, P., S. D. Mitchell, P.J. Richerson and S. Maasen, eds. Human by Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences. Erlbaum, New Jersey, pp.355-386.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1995) Bridewealth and its correlates: Quantifying changes over time. Current Anthropology 36:573-603.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1992) Reproductive decisions. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, eds. E.A. Smith and B. Winterhalder. Aldine de Gruyter, pp. 339-374.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1992) Women's strategies in polygynous marriage: Kipsigis, Datoga, and other East African cases. Human Nature 3:45-70.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1992) Demography of pastoralists: Preliminary data on the Datoga of Tanzania. Human Ecology 20:1- 23.

M. Borgerhoff Mulder, M. Datoga Pastoralists of Tanzania. (1991). National Geographic Research and Exploration 7(2):166-187.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1991). Behavioural ecology of humans: Studies of foraging and reproduction. In Behavioural Ecology, 3rd Edition, eds. J.R. Krebs and N. B. Davies. Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 69-98.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1990). Kipsigis women's preferences for wealthy men: Evidence for female choice in mammals. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 27:255-264.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1989). The polygyny-fertility hypothesis: new evidence from the Kipsigis of Kenya. Population Studies 43:285-304

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (1989). Early maturing Kipsigis women have higher reproductive success than later maturing women, and cost more to marry. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 24:145-153.

Borgerhoff Mulder, M. and T. M. Caro (1985). The use of quantitative observational techniques in anthropology. Current Anthropology 26:323-335.

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