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Overview

Tomás Huanca is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on sociology and political science, physiology, social psychology, nutrition and dietetics, and general health professions.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Their publications have appeared in several journals, such as:

  • American Journal of Human Biology
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Sustainable Earth Reviews
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Tomás Huanca include:

  • "Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries," published in 2024 in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems," published in 2024 in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small-scale populations in hot-humid and hot-arid environments," published in 2020 in American Journal of Human Biology
  • "Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities," published in 2024 in Sustainable Earth Reviews
  • "People infer communicative action through an expectation for efficient communication," published in 2022 in Nature Communications

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Victoria Reyes-García
  • Asher Y. Rosinger
  • Esther Conde
  • Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
  • Ricardo Godoy

Best Publications

  • CULTURAL, PRACTICAL, AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILD PLANTS: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON

    Victoria Reyes-García;Tomás Huanca;Vincent Vadez;William Leonard

  • Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: an empirical analysis from an Amerindian society☆

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;James Broesch;Laura Calvet-Mir;Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon

    Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;P. Blackinton;S. Tanner

  • Maintenance versus Growth : Investigating the Costs of Immune Activation Among Children in Lowland Bolivia

    Thomas W. McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;S. Tanner;T. Huanca

  • Knowledge and Consumption of Wild Plants: A comparative study in two Tsimane' villages in the Bolivian Amazon

    Victoria Reyes-García;Vincent Vadez;Tomás Huanca;William Leonard

  • Schooling and Local Environmental Knowledge: Do They Complement or Substitute Each Other?.

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Eric Kightley;Isabel Ruiz-Mallén;Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

  • Physical growth and nutritional status of Tsimane' Amerindian children of lowland Bolivia.

    Z. Foster;E. Byron;V. Reyes-García;T. Huanca

  • Local financial benefits of rain forests. Comparative evidence from Amerindian societies in Bolivia and Honduras

    R Godoy;H Overman;J Demmer;L Apaza

  • The effect of wealth and real income on wildlife consumption among native Amazonians in Bolivia: estimates of annual trends with longitudinal household data (2002–2006)

    R. Godoy;E. A. Undurraga;D. Wilkie;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge shared widely among Tsimane' Amerindians, Bolivia.

    V. Reyes-Garcia;R. Godoy;V. Vadez;L. Apaza

  • Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge: a methodological contribution

    Victoria Reyes-García;Vincent Vadez;Susan Tanner;Thomas McDade

  • Does Integration to the Market Threaten Agricultural Diversity? Panel and Cross-Sectional Data From a Horticultural-Foraging Society in the Bolivian Amazon

    Vincent Vadez;Victoria Reyes-García;Ricardo A. Godoy;V. Lilian Apaza

  • Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge: A Deadlock? Quantitative Research from a Native Amazonian Society

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Vincent Vadez;Tomás Huanca;William R. Leonard

  • Do the aged and knowledgeable men enjoy more prestige? A test of predictions from the prestige-bias model of cultural transmission

    Victoria Reyes-Garcia;Victoria Reyes-Garcia;Jose Luis Molina;James Broesch;Laura Calvet

  • Meat prices influence the consumption of wildlife by the Tsimane' Amerindians of Bolivia

    Lilian Apaza;David Wilkie;Elizabeth Byron;Tomás Huanca

  • Influence of helminth infections on childhood nutritional status in lowland Bolivia.

    S. Tanner;William Leonard;Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-Garcia;V. Reyes-Garcia

  • Cultural consonance and psychological well-being. Estimates using longitudinal data from an Amazonian society.

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;Clarence C. Gravlee;Thomas W. McDade;Tomás Huanca

  • Predictors of C-reactive protein in Tsimane' 2 to 15 year-olds in lowland Bolivia

    T.W. McDade;W.R. Leonard;J. Burhop;V. Reyes-García

  • Human capital, wealth, and nutrition in the Bolivian Amazon.

    Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-García;Vincent Vadez;William R. Leonard

  • Olfaction and Environment: Tsimane’ of Bolivian Rainforest Have Lower Threshold of Odor Detection Than Industrialized German People

    Agnieszka Sorokowska;Piotr Sorokowski;Thomas Hummel;Tomas Huanca

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
William R. Leonard
William R. Leonard Northwestern University
Ricardo Godoy
Ricardo Godoy Brandeis University
Vincent Vadez
Vincent Vadez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Agnieszka Sorokowska
Agnieszka Sorokowska University of Wrocław
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Bernhard Fink
Bernhard Fink University of Vienna

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