Selected Publications

Boehm, C. (1991) 

Lower-Level Teleology in Biological Evolution: Decision Behavior and Reproductive Success in Two Species. Cultural Dynamics 4:115-134.

Boehm, C.  (1992) 

Vocal Communication of Pan Troglodytes: Possibilities for Explaining Human Language Origins. In The Origins of Human Language. B. Chiarelli and A. C. Ciani, eds. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Boehm, C. (1994)

Pacifying Interventions at Arnhem Zoo and Gombe. In Chimpanzee Cultures, edited by Richard W. Wrangham, W. C. McGrew, Frans B. M. de Waal, and Paul G. Heltne. Pp. 211-226. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Boehm, C.(1997)

Impact of the Human Egalitarian Syndrome on Darwinian Selection Mechanics. American Naturalist 150:100-121.

Boehm, C.(1999) 

Hierarchy in the Forest: Egalitarian Society and the Evolution of Democratic Politics. Harvard University Press.

Boehm, C.  (2002) 

Variance reduction and the evolution of social control. Paper presented at Santa Fe Institute, 5th annual workshop on the co-evolution of behaviors and institutions, Santa Fe. http://www.santafe.edu/files/gems/behavioralsciences/variance.pdf

Boehm, C.  (2004) 

What Makes Humans Economically Distinctive? A Three-Species Evolutionary Comparison and Historical Analysis. Journal of Bioeconomics 2004.

Boehm, C.  (2004)

Large Game Hunting and the Evolution of Human Sociality. In, Origins and Nature of Sociality among Nonhuman and Human Primates. R.W. Sussman and A.R. Chapman, eds., pp. 270-287. New York: Aldine.

Boehm, C.  (In press) 

Sanctioning Selection, Lower-Level Teleology, and the Evolution of Self-Control. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research.

Boehm, C.  (In press) 

A Biocultural Evolutionary Exploration of Supernatural Sanctioning. In, Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques, C. Genet, ed. Collins Foundation Press.

Delgado, R.A., and van Schaik C.P.(2000)

The behavioral ecology and conservation of the orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus): A tale of two islands.  Evolutionary Anthropology, 9 (5): 201-218.

Delgado, R.A.(2006)

Sexual selection in the loud calls of male primates: Signal content and function.  International Journal of Primatology 27(1): 5-25.

Delgado, R.A.(2007)

Geographic variation in the long calls of male orangutans.
(Pongo spp.)  Ethology, 113: 487-498.

Hernandez-Aguilar, R.A.,(2006)

Ecology and Nesting Patterns of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Issa, Ugalla, Western Tanzania. Ph.D Thesi, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Hernandez-Aguilar, R.A., Moore, J., and Pickering T.R.(2007)

Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants. PNAS. 104, 19210-19213.

Muller, M.N., E Mpongo, C.B. Stanford and C. Boehm(1995)

A note on scavenging by wild chimpanzees. Folia Primatologica. 65:43-47

Muller, M.N. and R.W. Wrangham(2001)

The reproductive ecology of male hominoids.  Pages 397-427 in PT Ellison (ed.) Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution. New York: Aldine

Muller, M.N. (2002)

Agonistic relations among Kanyawara chimpanzees. Pages 112-124 in C Boesch, G Hohmann and L Marchant (eds.) Behavioral Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Muller, M.N. and S.F. Lipson(2003)

Diurnal patterns of urinary steroid excretion in wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology. 60:161-166.

Muller, M.N. and R.W. Wrangham(2004)

Testosterone, dominance and aggression in wild chimpanzees: A test of the challenge hypothesis. Animal Behaviour. 67:113-123.

Muller M.N. and R.W. Wrangham(2004)

Dominance, cortisol and stress in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 55:332-340.

Stanford, C.B., J. Wallis, E. Mpongo and J. Goodall(1994) 

Hunting decisions in wild chimpanzees.  Behaviour 131: 1-20.

Stanford, C.B., J. Wallis, H. Matama  and J. Goodall(1994) 

Patterns of predation by chimpanzees on red colobus monkeys in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, 1982-1991.   American Journal of Physical Anthropology  94: 213-228.

Stanford, C.B.(1995) 

The influence of chimpanzee predation on group size and anti-predator behaviour in red colobus monkeys.  Animal Behaviour 49: 577-587.

Stanford, C.B.(1995)

Chimpanzee hunting behavior and human evolution.  American Scientist  83 (3): 256-261.

Stanford, C.B.(1996)

The hunting ecology of wild chimpanzees; implications for the behavioral ecology of Pliocene hominids.  American Anthropologist  98: 96-113.

Stanford, C.B.  (1998) 

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey.  Harvard University Press.

Stanford, C.B. , C. Gambaneza, J.B. Nkurunungi and M. Goldsmith(2000) 

Chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, use different tools to obtain different types of honey.  Primates 41: 335-339.

Stanford, C.B. and J.B. Nkurunungi  (2003) 

Sympatric ecology of chimpanzees and gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Diet.  International Journal of Primatology 24: 901-918.

Stanford, C.B.  (2006)

The sympatric ecology of African great apes, with implications for the hominoid divergence. Primates 47: 91-101 (published online 10/05).

Stanford, C.B.  (2006) 

Arboreal bipedalism in wild chimpanzees: implications for models of the evolution of hominid posture and locomotion.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129: 225-231.

Stanford, C. (2007) 

Apes of the Impenetrable Forest. Prentice Hall (Primate Field Studies Series).

Stanford, C.B. and R.C. O'Malley (2008)

Sleeping tree choice in Bwindi chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology, in press.

Yamashita N.  in press. Chemical properties in the diets of two lemur species in Madagacar.  International  Journal of Primatology.

Yamashita N, Stoner KE, Riba-Hernández P, Dominy NJ, Lucas PW. (2005)

Light levels used during feeding by primate species with different color vision phenotypes.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 58:618-629.

Yamashita N.(2003)

Food procurement and tooth use in two sympatric lemur species. Am J Phys Anthropol. 121:125-133.

Yamashita N.(2002)

Diets of two lemur species in different microhabitats in Beza Mahafaly special reserve, Madagascar.  Int J Primatol. 23: 1025-1051.

Yamashita N.(1998)

Molar morphology and variation in two lemur families (Lemuridae and Indriidae). J Hum Evol. 35: 137-162.

Yamashita N.(1998)

Functional dental correlates of food properties in five Malagasy lemur species. Am J Phys Anthropol. 106: 169-188.

Yamashita N.(1996)

Seasonality and site specificity in mechanical dietary patterns in two families of Malagasy lemur (Lemuridae and Indriidae). Int J Primatol. 17(3): 355-387.