CURRICULUM VITAE
FRANK W. MARLOWE
Address: Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
(617) 495 - 1870 email: abqmat@r.postjobfree.com
Home page: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hbe-lab/
Education
Ph.D., 1997 The University of California, Los Angeles. Anthropology.
Ph.D. Advisor: Nicholas Blurton Jones
M.F.A., 1987 The University of California, Los Angeles. Theater Arts.
M.A., 1984 The University of California, Los Angeles. Anthropology.
B.A., 1978 The University of Texas, Austin. Anthropology.
Employment
2002-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1998-1998 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
1997-1998 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, California State
University, Los Angeles.
1987-1996 Associate Professor, Division of General Studies, West Coast
University, Los Angeles.
1981-1987 Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaker, Sociobehavioral Group,
University of California, Los Angeles.
1980-1981 Instructor and Writer, Institute for Intercultural Studies, L.A.
1978-1979 Archeologist, Center for Anthropological Studies, Albuquerque.
Fieldwork
2005 Foraging, Food-Sharing, and Family Formation among the Hadza
2004 Foraging, Food-Sharing, and Family Formation among the Hadza
2003 Foraging, Food-Sharing, and Family Formation among the Hadza
2002 The Roots of Human Sociality: Economic Games with the Hadza
2001-2002 Health in a Hunter-Gatherer Society: The Hadza of Tanzania
2001 Foraging among the Western Hadza.
2000 Pilot Investigation of Jarawa Foragers of the Andaman Islands.
1998 Reciprocal Fairness among the Hadza of Tanzania.
1997 Foraging Skills among the Hadza (with N.G. Blurton Jones).
1995-96 Paternal Care among the Hadza.
1978-79 Excavation of various archeological sites, New Mexico.
Publications (Journal articles):
Marlowe, F.W., Yang, A. ND. The sharing game in two societies.
Henrich J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barret, C., Bolyanatz, A., Camilo
Cardenas, J., Gurven, M., Gwako, E., Henrich, N., Lesorogol, C., Marlowe, F.,
Tracer, D., and Ziker, J. Submitted. Costly punishment across human societies.
Science.
Mallol C., Marlowe F.W., Wood B., Porter C.C., Bar-Yosef O. Submitted. Earth, wind,
and fire: Archeological signals of Hadza fires. Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology.
Apicella, C.L., Little, A.C., Marlowe, F.W. In review. Facial averageness and
attractiveness in an isolated population of hunter-gatherers. Perception.
Sherry, D.S., Marlowe, F.W. In review. Seasonal patterns in the dietary composition of
Hadza foragers. Human Ecology.
Porter, C.C., Marlowe, F.W. Accepted. How marginal are forager habitats? Journal of
Archaeological Science.
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Publications (continued)
Apicella, C.L., Marlowe, F.W. In press. Men s reproductive decisions: Mating,
parenting and self-perceived mate value. Human Nature.
Wilkins, J.F., Marlowe, F.W. 2006. Sex-biased migration in humans: What
should we expect from genetic data? BioEssays 28:290-300.
Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., McElreath, R.,
Alvard, M., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Henrich, N.S., Hill, K., Gil-White, F.,
Gurven, M., Marlowe, F., Patton, J., Tracer, D. 2005. Economic man in cross-
cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:795-855.
Marlowe, F.W., Apicella, C.L., Reed, D. 2005. Men s Preferences for Women s
Profile Waist-Hip-Ratio in Two Societies. Evolution and Human Behavior
26:458-468.
Marlowe, F.W. 2005. Hunter-gatherers and human evolution. Evolutionary
Anthropology 14:54-67.
Marlowe, F.W. 2004. Mate preferences among Hadza hunter-gatherers. Human
Nature 15:364-375
Marlowe, F.W. 2004. What explains Hadza food sharing? Research in Economic
Anthropology 23:69-88.
Apicella, C.L., Marlowe, F.W. 2004. Perceived mate fidelity and paternal resemblance
predict men s investment in children. Evolution and Human Behavior 25:371-
378.
Gray, P.B., Campbell, B.C., Marlowe, F.W., Lipson, S.F., Ellison, P.T. 2004. Social
variables predict between- but not within-subject testosterone variation in a
sample of U.S. men. Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:1153-1162.
Marlowe, F.W. 2004. Is human ovulation concealed? Evidence from conception
beliefs in a hunter-gatherer society: the Hadza of Tanzania. Archives of Sexual
Behavior 33:427-432.
Marlowe, F.W. 2004. Martial residence among foragers. Current Anthropology 45:277-
284.
Marlowe, F.W. 2003. The Mating System of Foragers in the Standard Cross-Cultural
Sample. Cross-Cultural Research 37:282-306.
Marlowe, F.W. 2003. A critical period for provisioning by Hadza men: Implications
for pair bonding. Evolution and Human Behavior 24:217-229.
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Publications (continued)
Gray, P., Marlowe, F. 2002. Fluctuating asymmetry of a foraging population: The Hadza
of Tanzania. Annals of Human Biology 29:495-501.
Blurton Jones, N.G., Marlowe, F.W. 2002. Selection for delayed maturity: Does it take
20 years to learn to hunt and gather? Human Nature 13:199-238.
Marlowe, F. 2001. Male contribution to diet and female reproductive success among
foragers. Current Anthropology 42:755-760.
Marlowe, F., Wetsman, A. 2001. Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology. Personality
and Individual Differences 30:481-489.
Marlowe, F. 2000. Paternal investment and the human mating system. Behavioural
Processes 51:45-61.
Marlowe, F. 2000. The patriarch hypothesis: An alternative explanation of
menopause. Human Nature 11:27-42.
Marlowe, F. 1999. Showoffs or providers?: The parenting effort of Hadza men.
Evolution and Human Behavior 20:391-404.
Wetsman, A., Marlowe, F. 1999. How universal are preferences for female waist-to-hip
ratios? Evidence from the Hadza of Tanzania. Evolution and Human Behavior
20:219-228.
Marlowe, F. 1999. Male care and mating effort among Hadza foragers. Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 46:57-64.
Marlowe, F. 1998. The nubility hypothesis: The human breast as an honest signal of
residual reproductive value. Human Nature 9:263-271.
Books:
Marlowe, F.W. The Hadza: Behavioral Ecology of a Hunter-Gatherer Society.
To be published by University of California Press.
Chapters:
Marlowe, F.W. ND. Better to receive than to give: Hadza behavior in three experimental
economics games. For a book on the continuing cross-cultural experimental
economics project. J. Henrich and J. Ensminger (Eds.)
Marlowe, F.W. In press. Central place provisioning: The Hadza as an example. In
G. Hohmann, M. Robbins, and C. Boesch (Eds.) Feeding Ecology in Apes and
Other Primates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Publications (continued)
Marlowe, F.W. 2005. Who tends Hadza children? In B. Hewlett and M. Lamb (Eds.)
Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural
Perspectives. New Brunswick: Transaction, pp 177-190.
Marlowe, F.W. 2004. Dictators and ultimatums in an egalitarian society of hunter-
gatherers, the Hadza of Tanzania. In J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, H. Gintis,
C. Camerer and E. Fehr (Eds.) Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic
Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 168-193.
Marlowe, F. 2002. Why the Hadza are still hunter-gatherers. In S. Kent (Ed.) Ethnicity,
Hunter-gatherers, and the Other : Association or Assimilation in Africa.
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp 247-275.
Blurton Jones, N.G., Marlowe, F.W., Hawkes, K., O Connell, J.F. 2000. Paternal
investment and hunter-gatherer divorce rates. In L. Cronk, N. Chagnon and W.
Irons (Eds.) Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective.
New York: Aldine de Gruyter, pp 69-90.
Commentaries/Reviews/Introductions:
Marlowe, F.W. 2005. Reply to Costopoulos s Comment on my analysis of forager
marital residence. Current Anthropology 46:458.
Marlowe, F.W. 2005. Reply to Otterbein s Comment on my analysis of forager marital
residence. Current Anthropology 46:126-127.
Marlowe, F.W. 2003. The Hadza. In Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
Marlowe, F.W. 2003. The Hadza. In Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
Marlowe, F. 2002. Father involvement: Evolutionary perspectives. In C.S.
Tamis-LeMonda, N. Cabrera (Eds.) Handbook of Father Involvement:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Marlowe, F. 2000. Good genes and parental care in human evolution. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences 23:611-612.
Marlowe, F.W. 1995. The evolution of desire (by David Buss). Ethology &
Sociobiology 16:93-95.
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Invited Lectures and Papers Presented
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor among the Hadza. 2006. American Association
of Physical Anthropologists Conference, Anchorage, Alaska.
Hunting and Gathering: The Human Sexual Division of Labor. 2006. Society for Cross-
Cultural Research Conference. Savannah, Georgia.
The Sexual Division of Foraging Labor. 2005. American Anthropological Association
Conference, Washington, D.C.
Sex Differences in Tool Use: The Hadza vs. Chimpanzees. 2005. Culture Conference.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Hadza Foraging: What it Might Tell Us About the Past. 2005.
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Parental Care among Hadza Hunter-Gatherers. 2004.
Bi-Parental Care Workshop, Wageningse Berg, Netherlands.
Central Place Foraging, Fission-Fusion, and Provisioning among the Hadza. 2004.
Symposium: Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates. Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Marital Residence among Foragers. 2003.
American Anthropological Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Foragers and the Past. 2003. Genetics Dept., University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
The Mating Effort of Hadza Men. 2002.
American Anthropological Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Who Tends Hadza Children? 2002.
9th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Edinburgh, UK.
A Critical Period for Paternal Provisioning among the Hadza. 2002.
14th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, Rutgers, New Jersey.
Why Get Married? Foraging, Mating and Parenting among the Hadza. 2002.
Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook, New York.
Male Provisioning and Female Reproductive Success among Foragers. 2001.
13th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, London, England.
Comments on Human Mate Choice. 2000.
Symposium: Human Mate Choice and Prehistoric Marital Networks.
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
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Invited Lectures and Papers Presented (continued)
Hadza Hunting. 2000.
American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco, California.
The Patriarch Hypothesis: An Alternative Explanation of Menopause. 2000.
12th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Sharing Among Hadza Hunter-Gatherers. 1999.
Symposium: Evolution of Cooperation. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Cooperation and Food Sharing among the Hadza. 1999.
11th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Showoffs or Providers: The Parenting Effort of Hadza Men. 1998.
10th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, Davis, California (Post-
Doctoral Competition Award).
Paternal Care and Mating Effort in a Foraging Society: The Hadza of Tanzania. 1997.
9th Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meetings, Tucson, Arizona.
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2006 National Science Foundation Grant # 0544751, $59,328. Foraging, Food
Sharing, and Family Formation among the Hadza, Part 2.
2003 National Science Foundation Grant # 0242455, $386,459. Foraging, Food
Sharing, and Family Formation among the Hadza.
2001 National Science Foundation Grant #0136761, $12,000. Roots of Human
Sociality: An Ethno-Experimental Exploration of the Foundations of
Economic Norms in 16 Small-scale Societies. Ensminger, Henrich, PI s.
2000 William F. Milton Fund, $24,000. Health in a Hunter-Gatherer Society:
The Hadza of Tanzania.
1999 National Science Foundation Grant #9976681, $9,615. Pilot Study of
Foraging among the Western Hadza.
1998 The Human Behavior and Evolution Society Post-Doctoral Competition
Award, $500.
1998 MacArthur Foundation, $6,000. Reciprocal Fairness among the
Hadza of Tanzania.
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Awards, Grants and Fellowships (continued)
1996 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, $12,500 plus fees
1996 Leakey Foundation Research Grant #SL952012, $5,000. Paternal
Care among the Hadza of Tanzania.
1996 National Science Foundation Grant #9529278, $4,536. Paternal Care
among the Hadza of Tanzania.
1994-1996 Research Funds, Grad Division and Anthropology UCLA. $16,600
1987 David L. Wolper Award for Film, Intl. Doc. Assoc. $1,500
1986 Samuel Goldwyn Award for Screenwriting. $1,500.
1985 Jack Nicholson Award for Screenwriting. $1,000
Teaching
Harvard University Graduate Courses:
Behavioral Biology, Human Parenting and Mating Strategies, Cross-
Cultural Evolutionary Analysis, Apes and Human Foragers
Harvard University Undergraduate Courses:
Evolution of Human Behavior, Hunter-Gatherers, Evolution of Human
Sexuality, Race and Racism in Evolutionary Perspective
University of California, Santa Barbara (undergraduate courses):
Biosocial Anthropology, Primate Behavior
California State University, Los Angeles (undergraduate courses):
Introductory Physical Anthropology, Introductory Cultural Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles Extension (undergraduate courses):
Primate Behavior, Human Sexuality
West Coast University (undergraduate courses):
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Introduction to Physical
Anthropology, Evolution of Human Sexuality
Professional Organizations
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
American Anthropological Association
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
International Academy of Sex Research
Society for Cross-Cultural Research
Films & Screenplays
1987 Manatic. David L. Wolper Award, Chicago, S.F., N.Y. Festival Awards.
1987 Godsend -- Comedy.
1984 Labyrinth -- Drama. Jack Nicholson and Samuel Goldwyn Awards.
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