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Overview

Douglas W. Bird is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and psychology, with a considerable emphasis on ecology and cognitive aspects of human behavior.

The scientist has contributed to multiple fields including ecology, experimental and cognitive psychology, global and planetary change, social psychology, and general health professions. Their work spans key topics such as wildlife ecology and conservation, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, primate behavior and ecology, indigenous studies and ecology, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and human-animal interaction studies.

Douglas W. Bird's recent publications include:

  • "The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Fire mosaics and habitat choice in nomadic foragers," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?," 2021, published in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • "To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past," 2020, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis," 2020, published in American Journal of Human Biology

Frequent co-authors of Douglas W. Bird include:

  • Rebecca Bliege Bird
  • Bruce Winterhalder
  • Chloe McGuire
  • Eugène Morin
  • Jeremy Koster

The publications commonly appear in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
  • American Journal of Human Biology

The body of work by Douglas W. Bird reflects a multidisciplinary approach crossing environmental science and psychological perspectives. Their research engages with both contemporary and ancient aspects of human ecology, behavior, and interaction with natural environments, contributing to understanding human adaptations and historical ecological dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eric Alden Smith;Douglas W. Bird

  • The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

    R. Bliege Bird;D. W. Bird;B. F. Codding;C. H. Parker

  • Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology

    Douglas W. Bird;James F. O’Connell

  • Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft: The Behavioral Ecology of Food-Sharing Strategies

    Rebecca L. Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters

    Eric Alden Smith;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Hunting and Nuclear Families: Some Lessons from the Hadza about Men's Work

    K. Hawkes;J. F. O'connell;N. G. Blurton Jones;Duran Bell

  • Contemporary Shellfish Gathering Strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: Testing Predictions of a Central Place Foraging Model

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca L. Bliege Bird

  • Aboriginal Burning Regimes and Hunting Strategies in Australia’s Western Desert

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Christopher H. Parker

  • Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W Bird;Eric Alden Smith;Geoffrey C Kushnick

  • Why women hunt: risk and contemporary foraging in a Western Desert aboriginal community.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science

    Brian F. Codding;Douglas W. Bird

  • Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing? : Fishing and collecting by the children of mer.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution.

    Alexis P. Sullivan;Douglas W. Bird;George H. Perry

  • In pursuit of mobile prey: Martu hunting strategies and archaeofaunal interpretation

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding

  • Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding;Peter G. Kauhanen;Douglas W. Bird

  • Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Brian F. Codding;David W. Zeanah

  • Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Nyalangka Tayor;Brian F. Codding;Douglas W. Bird

  • Provisioning offspring and others: risk- energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter-gatherer foraging strategies

    Brian F. Codding;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Martu Children’s Hunting Strategies in the Western Desert, Australia

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Explaining Shellfish Variability in Middens on the Meriam Islands, Torres Strait, Australia

    Douglas W. Bird;Jennifer L. Richardson;Peter M. Veth;Anthony J. Barham

  • Children on the reef : Slow learning or strategic foraging?

    Douglas W. Bird;Rebecca Bliege Bird

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Bliege Bird
Rebecca Bliege Bird Pennsylvania State University
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Hillary S. Young
Hillary S. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
James F. O'Connell
James F. O'Connell University of Utah
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University

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