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80
Citations
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World Ranking
375
National Ranking
177

Overview

Hillard Kaplan is affiliated with Chapman University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, and Physiology.

Their work covers diverse main topics such as Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Health disparities and outcomes, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Kaplan has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, reflecting a broad engagement with interdisciplinary scientific communities. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Evolution Medicine and Public Health
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Kaplan are:

  • "Voluntary collective isolation as a best response to COVID-19 for indigenous populations? A case study and protocol from the Bolivian Amazon," 2020, The Lancet

Frequent collaborators include Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Paul L. Hooper, and Daniel K. Cummings, which indicates an active partnership network contributing to their multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity

    Hillard Kaplan;Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill;Kim Hill;Jane Lancaster;Jane Lancaster;A. Magdalena Hurtado;A. Magdalena Hurtado

  • Life history theory and evolutionary psychology.

    Marco Del Giudice;Steven W. Gangestad;Hillard S. Kaplan

  • Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply]

    Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill;Rowe V. Cadeliña;Brian Hayden

  • An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease

    Steve Horvath;Michael Gurven;Morgan E. Levine;Benjamin C. Trumble

  • Longevity Among Hunter‐ Gatherers: A Cross‐Cultural Examination

    Michael Gurven;Hillard Kaplan

  • LIFE HISTORY TRAITS IN HUMANS: Theory and Empirical Studies

    Kim Hill;Hillard Kaplan

  • Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Samuel Bowles;Tom Hertz;Adrian Bell

  • Food Sharing among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses'

    Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill

  • How universal is the Big Five? Testing the five-factor model of personality variation among forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon.

    Michael Gurven;Christopher von Rueden;Maxim Massenkoff;Hillard Kaplan

  • A theory of fertility and parental investment in traditional and modern human societies

    Hillard Kaplan

  • Growth rates and life histories in twenty-two small-scale societies.

    Robert Walker;Michael Gurven;Kim Hill;Andrea Migliano

  • Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Patrick Bateson;Alan S. Beedle

  • Hunting Ability and Reproductive Success Among Male Ache Foragers: Preliminary Results

    Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill

  • Evolutionary and wealth flows theories of fertility: empirical tests and new models.

    Hillard Kaplan

  • Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige

    Christopher von Rueden;Michael Gurven;Hillard Kaplan

  • The emergence of humans: The coevolution of intelligence and longevity with intergenerational transfers

    Hillard S. Kaplan;Arthur J. Robson

  • The evolutionary and ecological roots of human social organization.

    Hillard S. Kaplan;Paul L. Hooper;Michael Gurven

  • Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies.

    Gandhi Yetish;Hillard Kaplan;Michael Gurven;Brian M. Wood

  • The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting in the Neotropics

    Michael S. Alvard;John G. Robinson;Kent H. Redford;Hillard Kaplan

  • The Evolutionary Ecology of Food Acquisition

    Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill

  • Paternal Care by Genetic Fathers and Stepfathers I: Reports from Albuquerque Men

    Kermyt G Anderson;Hillard Kaplan;Jane Lancaster

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher von Rueden
Christopher von Rueden University of Richmond
Caleb E. Finch
Caleb E. Finch University of Southern California
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Hooman Allayee
Hooman Allayee University of Southern California
Rebecca Sear
Rebecca Sear London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Alexandre F.R. Stewart
Alexandre F.R. Stewart University of Ottawa

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