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120
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396

Marcus W. Feldman publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcus W. Feldman sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 642 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Marcus W. Feldman D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marcus W. Feldman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 120 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marcus W. Feldman is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Social Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their work further concentrates on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Genetics, Cultural Studies, Demography, and Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics include evolutionary and cultural dynamics, addressing areas such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Language and Cultural Evolution, as well as environmental and social challenges including Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact, Disaster Management and Resilience, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, and Climate Change Adaptation and Migration.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Yoav Ram, Kaleda K. Denton, Shuzhuo Li, Kevin N. Laland, and Wei Liu.

Marcus W. Feldman has published extensively in prominent venues, including Theoretical Population Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), and PLoS Computational Biology.

Notable recent papers include:
- Hunter-gatherer genomes reveal diverse demographic trajectories during the rise of farming in Eastern Africa (2022) published in Current Biology
- Cultural evolution of conformity and anticonformity (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- The status of perceived community resilience in transitional rural society: An empirical study from central China (2020) published in Journal of Rural Studies
- The Impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation and Settlement Program on Rural Households' Well-Being and Ecosystem Dependence: Evidence from Western China (2020) published in Society & Natural Resources
- Adaptive social contact rates induce complex dynamics during epidemics (2021) published in PLoS Computational Biology

In addition to articles, Marcus W. Feldman has contributed to book publications primarily through Princeton University Press. These include titles such as Evolution Evolving (2024) and Cultural Transmission and Evolution (MPB-16), Volume 16 (2020).

Best Publications

  • CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND EVOLUTION: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

    L. L. Cavalli-Sforza;Marcus W. Feldman

  • Worldwide human relationships inferred from genome-wide patterns of variation.

    Jun Z. Li;Devin M. Absher;Hua Tang;Audrey M. Southwick

  • Genetic Structure of Human Populations

    Noah A. Rosenberg;Jonathan K. Pritchard;James L. Weber;Howard M. Cann

  • Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution

    F. John Odling-Smee;Kevin N. Laland;Marcus W. Feldman

  • A Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel

    Howard M. Cann;Claudia De Toma;Lucien Cazes;Marie Fernande Legrand

  • Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

    Joseph K. Pickrell;Graham Coop;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

  • Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors

    Benjamin Kerr;Margaret A. Riley;Marcus W. Feldman;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  • Niche construction, biological evolution, and cultural change.

    Kevin N. Laland;John Odling-Smee;Marcus W. Feldman

  • The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions.

    Kevin N. Laland;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller;Marcus W. Feldman;Kim Sterelny;Kim Sterelny

  • An evaluation of genetic distances for use with microsatellite loci.

    D B Goldstein;A Ruiz Linares;L L Cavalli-Sforza;M W Feldman

  • Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations

    Underhill Pa;Shen P;Lin Aa;Jin L

  • Population growth of human Y chromosomes: a study of Y chromosome microsatellites.

    J K Pritchard;M T Seielstad;A Perez-Lezaun;M W Feldman

  • Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa

    Sohini Ramachandran;Omkar Deshpande;Charles C. Roseman;Noah A. Rosenberg

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

    Anne D. Guerry;Anne D. Guerry;Stephen Polasky;Jane Lubchenco;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer

  • Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network

    Hunter B. Fraser;Aaron E. Hirsh;Lars M. Steinmetz;Curt Scharfe

  • Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

    Luke Rendell;R Boyd;D Cownden;Magnus Enquist

  • Genetic absolute dating based on microsatellites and the origin of modern humans.

    D B Goldstein;A Ruiz Linares;L L Cavalli-Sforza;M W Feldman

  • A high-resolution human contact network for infectious disease transmission

    Marcel Salathé;Maria Kazandjieva;Jung Woo Lee;Philip Levis

  • An Exact Nonparametric Method for Inferring Mosaic Structure in Sequence Triplets

    Maciej F. Boni;David Posada;Marcus W. Feldman

  • An evaluation of genetic distance for use with microsatellite loci

    D.B. Goldstein;M.W. Feldman;L.L. Cavalli-Sforza

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Stanford University
Kevin N. Laland
Kevin N. Laland University of St Andrews
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Noah A. Rosenberg
Noah A. Rosenberg Stanford University
Jonathan K. Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University
Sarah P. Otto
Sarah P. Otto University of British Columbia
David Goldstein
David Goldstein University of New South Wales
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin Stanford University
Steffen Weigend
Steffen Weigend Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

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