name : Bret Alexander Beheim contact: email : bret_beheim@eva.mpg.de orcid : 0000-0003-4653-3155 github : babeheim twitter : "@babeheim" phone : +49(0) 341 3550 310 website : babeheim.com address : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany D-04103 pronouns : he/him employment: - position : Group Leader years : 2020 - present group : Data Provenance Research Group institution : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) department : Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture - position : Senior Researcher years : 2016 - 2019 institution : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) department : Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture - position : Postdoctoral Researcher years : 2012 - 2016 institution : University of New Mexico department : Department of Anthropology education: - degree : Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology year_received : 2012 institution : University of California at Davis location : Davis, California, USA - degree : Master of Arts in Social Sciences year_received : 2006 institution : University of Chicago location : Chicago, Illinois, USA - degree : Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology year_received : 2004 institution : University of California at Santa Barbara location : Santa Barbara, California, USA notes : with distinction in the major (History); Phi Beta Kappa working papers: - authors : Bret Beheim title : A linked mixture model of coronary atherosclerosis preprint : https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.13.21263547 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/linked-calcium-growth - authors : N.-Han Tran, Bret A. Beheim title : "Differential skill aquisition by age in two knowledge-intensive strategy games" status : in prep - authors : Natalia Fedorova, Richard McElreath, and Bret A. Beheim title : "The complex life course of mobility: Quantitative description of 60,000 residential moves in 1850-1950 Netherlands" status : in prep materials : https://github.com/Naty-fedorova/Dutch-historical-mobility - authors : Schwartz, Matthew, et al. title : "The role of parity and sex in tooth loss in a natural fertility population with little access to dentistry" status : in prep, AJPA - authors : Beheim, B., Kaplan, H., Thompson, R.C., Trumble, B.C., Wann, L.S., Allam, A.H., Frohlich, B., Sutherland, M.L., Sutherland, J.D., Steiglitz, J. *et al*. title : "Cardiovascular acculturation among subsistence horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon" target : Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health - authors : Beheim, B., McElreath, R., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. title : "Social diffusion of gasoline motors in the Bolivian Amazon" target : Evolution and Human Behavior - authors : Thomas Kraft, Edmond Seabright, Sarah Alami, Paul Hooper, Ben Trumble, Angela Garcia, Dan Cummings, Michael Gurven, HIllard Kaplan title : "Metapopulation dynamics of infectious disease transmission in a small-scale human society" status : in prep - authors : Riana Minocher, Bret Beheim title : "Evolutionary dynamics of bilingualism in an indigenous South American population" status : in prep publications: # 2021 - authors : Riana Minocher, Silke Atmaca, Claudia Bavero, Richard McElreath, Bret Beheim title : "Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018" preprint : https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4nzc7 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210450 journal : Royal Society Open Science volume : 8:210450 materials : https://github.com/rianaminocher/reproducibility-analysis publisher : The Royal Society Publishing - authors : Angela R Garcia, Caleb E Finch, Margy Gatz, Thomas Kraft, Daniel Cummings, Jonathan Stieglitz, Mia Charifson, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Kenneth Buetow, Bret Beheim, Hooman Allayee, Greg Thomas and the HORUS team, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Benjamin C Trumble title : "APOE4 is associated with elevated blood lipids and lower levels of innate immune biomarkers in a tropical Amerindian subsistence population" year : 2021 journal : eLife volume : 10:e68231 publisher : eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. doi : https://doi.org/0.7554/eLife.682311 materials : https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrpt - authors : N.-Han Tran, Simon Kucharský, Timothy Waring, Silke Atmaca, Bret Beheim title : "Limited scope for group coordination for stylistic variations in kolam art" year : 2021 journal : Frontiers in Psychology volume : 12:4770 doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742577 materials : https://github.com/nhtran93/kolam_coordination publisher : Frontiers - authors : Bret Beheim, Quentin Atkinson, Joseph Bulbulia, Will M. Gervais, Russell Gray, Joseph Henrich, Martin Lang, M. Willis Monroe, Michael Muthukrishna, Ara Norenzayan, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Azim Shariff, Edward Slingerland, Rachel Spicer, Aiyana K. Willard title : "Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods" preprint : https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jwa2n materials : https://github.com/babeheim/moralizing-gods-reanalysis year : 2021 journal : Nature volume : 595 doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4 publisher : Springer Nature - authors : Adrian V. Jaeggi, Aaron D. Blackwell, Christopher von Rueden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Angela R. Garcia, Thomas S. Kraft, Bret Beheim, Paul Hooper, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Relative wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society" year : 2021 journal : eLife volume : 10:e59437 doi : https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59437 materials : https://github.com/adblackwell/wealthinequality publisher : eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. - authors : Christopher J. Rowan, Michael A. Escander, Edmond Seabright, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Juan Copajira Adrian, Daniel Cummings, Bret Beheim, Kirsten Tolstrup, Abinash Achrekar, Thomas Kraft, David E. Michalik, Michael I Miyamoto, Adel H. Allam, L. Samuel Wann, Jagat Narula, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Randall C. Thompson, Gregory S. Thomas, Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael D. Gurven title : "Very low prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation among Bolivian forager-farmers" year : 2021 journal : Annals of Global Health volume : 87(1) doi : http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3252 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/tsimane-afib-public publisher : Ubiquity Press - authors : N.-Han Tran, Timothy Waring, Silke Atmaca, Bret A. Beheim title : "Entropy trade-offs in artistic design: A case study of Tamil *kolam*" year : 2021 journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences volume : 3(E23) doi : http://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.14 materials : https://github.com/nhtran93/kolam_signaling publisher : Cambridge University Press # 2020 - authors : Tanya Broesch, Alyssa N Crittenden, Bret Beheim, Aaron Blackwell, John Bunce, Heidi Colleran, Kristin Hagel, Michelle Kline, Richard McElreath, Robin Nelson, Anne Pisor, Sean Prall, Ilaria Pretelli, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Elizabeth A Quinn, Cody T Ross, Brooke Scelza, Katie Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder title : "Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations" year : 2020 journal : Proc. R. Soc. B. volume : 287:20201245 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1245 preprint : https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/thqsw publisher : The Royal Society Publishing - authors : Michael Gurven, Thomas S. Kraft, Sarah Alami, Juan Copajira Adrian, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Daniel Cummings, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Raul Quispe Gutierrez, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Edmond Seabright, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin Trumble title : "Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population" year : 2020 journal : Science Advances volume : Vol. 6, no. 44, eabc6599 doi : https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc6599 role : primary database manager publisher : American Association for the Advancement of Science - authors : Brian M Wood, Herman Pontzer, Jacob A Harris, Audax ZP Mabulla, Marc T Hamilton, Theodore W Zderic, Bret A Beheim, David A Raichlen title : "Step Counts From Satellites: Methods for Integrating Accelerometer and GPS Data for More Accurate Measures of Pedestrian Travel" year : 2020 journal : Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour volume : 3(1), pp. 58-66 doi : https://doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2019-0016 publisher : Human Kinetics # 2019 - authors : Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Mary C Towner, Ryan Baldini, Bret A Beheim, Samuel Bowles, Heidi Colleran, Michael Gurven, Karen L Kramer, Siobhán M Mattison, David A Nolin, Brooke A Scelza, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary K Shenk, Eckart Voland, John Ziker title : "Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth" year : 2019 journal : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B volume : 374:20180076 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0076 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/wealth-transmission-son-bias publisher : The Royal Society Publishing # 2018 - authors : Cody T Ross, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Seung-Yun Oh, Samuel Bowles, Bret Beheim, John Bunce, Mark Caudell, Gregory Clark, Heidi Colleran, Carmen Cortez, Patricia Draper, Russell D Greaves, Michael Gurven, Thomas Headland, Janet Headland, Kim Hill, Barry Hewlett, Hillard S Kaplan, Jeremy Koster, Karen Kramer, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, David Nolin, Marsha Quinlan, Robert Quinlan, Caissa Revilla-Minaya, Brooke Scelza, Ryan Schacht, Mary Shenk, Ray Uehara, Eckart Voland, Kai Willführ, Bruce Winterhalder, John Ziker title : "Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model" year : 2018 journal : Journal of the Royal Society Interface volume : 15:20180035 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0035 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/polygyny-puzzle publisher : The Royal Society Publishing - authors : Benjamin C Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Adrian V Jaeggi, Bret Beheim, Matthew Schwartz, Edmond Seabright, Daniel Cummings, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Parental hormones are associated with crop loss and family sickness following catastrophic flooding in lowland Bolivia" year : 2018 journal : Physiology & Behavior volume : Volume 193, Part A, Pages 101-107 doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.028 publisher : Elsevier - authors : Eric Schniter, Nathaniel T Wilcox, Bret A Beheim, Hillard S Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Information transmission and the oral tradition: Evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians" year : 2018 volume : Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 94-105 journal : Evolution and Human Behavior doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.006 publisher : Elsevier # 2017 - authors : Hillard Kaplan, Randall C Thompson, Benjamin C Trumble, L Samuel Wann, Adel H Allam, Bret Beheim, Bruno Frohlich, M Linda Sutherland, James D Sutherland, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, David E Michalik, Chris J Rowan, Guido P Lombardi, Ram Bedi, Angela R Garcia, James K Min, Jagat Narula, Caleb E Finch, Michael Gurven, Gregory S Thomas title : "Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study" year : 2017 journal : The Lancet volume : Volume 389, Issue 10080, pp.1730-1739 doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30752-3 publisher : Elsevier - authors : Aaron D Blackwell, Samuel S Urlacher, Bret Beheim, Christopher von Rueden, Adrian Jaeggi, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C Trumble, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan title : "Growth references for Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon" year : 2017 journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology volume : 162.3, pp. 441-461 doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23128 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/tsimane-growth-references publisher : Wiley - authors : Michael Gurven, Eric Fuerstenberg, Benjamin Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, Helen Davis, Hillard Kaplan title : "Cognitive performance across the life course of Bolivian forager-farmers with limited schooling" year : 2017 journal : Developmental Psychology volume : 53(1), pp. 160–176 doi : https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000175 publisher : American Psychological Association - authors : Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin Trumble, Aaron D Blackwell, Bret Beheim, Helen Davis, Paul Hooper, Hillard Kaplan title : "The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating anthropology and biomedicine" year : 2017 journal : Evolutionary Anthropology volume : 26.2, pp. 54-73 doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21515 publisher : Wiley # 2016 - authors : Bret Beheim title : "Reproducible Research as our New Default" volume : 57.5, e57-e58 year : 2016 journal : Anthropology News publisher : American Anthropological Association doi : https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2016.570523.x - authors : Benjamin C Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Aaron D Blackwell, Hooman Allayee, Bret Beheim, Caleb E Finch, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan title : "Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with improved cognitive function in Amazonian forager-horticulturalists with a high parasite burden" year : 2016 journal : The FASEB Journal volume : 31.4, pp.1508-1515 doi : https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201601084R publisher : Wiley - authors : Michael Gurven, Megan Costa, Ben Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L Hooper, Hillard Kaplan title : "Health costs of reproduction are minimal despite high fertility, mortality and subsistence lifestyle" year : 2016 journal : Nature Scientific Reports volume : 6.1, pp.1-10 doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30056 publisher : Nature Research - authors : Adrian V Jaeggi, Paul L Hooper, Bret A Beheim, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Reciprocal exchange patterned by market forces helps explain cooperation in a small-scale society" year : 2016 journal : Current Biology volume : Volume 26, Issue 16, pp.2180-2187 doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.019 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/tsimane-multigood-reciprocity publisher : Elsevier - authors : Michael D Gurven, Benjamin C Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Gandhi Yetish, Daniel Cummings, Aaron D Blackwell, Bret Beheim, Hillard S Kaplan, Herman Pontzer title : "High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden" year : 2016 journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology volume : 161.3, pp.414-425. doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23040 publisher : Wiley - authors : Aaron D Blackwell, Benjamin C Trumble, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, J Josh Snodgrass, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Immune Function in Amazonian Horticulturalists" year : 2016 journal : Annals of Human Biology volume : 43(4), pp.382-396 doi : https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2016.1189963 publisher : Taylor & Francis - authors : Siobhán M. Mattison, Eric A. Smith, Mary K. Shenk, Ethan E. Cochrane title : "The Evolution of Inequality" year : 2016 journal : Evolutionary Anthropology volume : 25.4, pp. 184-199. doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21491 publisher : Wiley materials : https://github.com/babeheim/evolution-of-inequality role : data analyst, figure author - authors : Siobhán M. Mattison, Bret Beheim, Bridget Chak, Peter Buston title : "Offspring sex preferences among patrilineal and matrilineal Mosuo in Southwest China revealed by differences in parity progression" year : 2016 journal : Royal Society Open Science volume : 3:160526 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160526 publisher : The Royal Society Publishing materials : https://github.com/babeheim/mosuo-ppr # 2015 - authors : Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret A Beheim, Benjamin C Trumble, Felicia C Madimenos, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Low Mineral Density of a Weight-Bearing Bone Among Adult Women in a High Fertility Population" year : 2015 journal : American Journal of Physical Anthropology volume : 156.4, 637-648 doi : https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22681 publisher : Wiley - authors : Aaron D Blackwell, Marilyne A Tamayo, Bret Beheim, Benjamin C Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L Hooper, Melanie Martin, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven title : "Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women" year : 2015 journal : Science volume : Vol. 350, Issue 6263, pp. 970-972 publisher : American Association for the Advancement of Science doi : https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac7902 # 2014 - authors : Bret Alexander Beheim, Calvin Thigpen, Richard McElreath title : "Strategic social learning and the population dynamics of human behavior: the game of Go" year : 2014 journal : Evolution and Human Behavior volume : Volume 35, Issue 5, September 2014, Pages 351-357 preprint : https://doi.org/10.1101/005223 doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.04.001 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/go-firstmove publisher : Elsevier # 2012 and before - authors : Bret A Beheim, Ryan Baldini title : "Evolutionary decomposition and the mechanisms of cultural change" volume : Volume 3, Issue 2 year : 2012 journal : Cliodynamics doi : https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio3212123 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/snoobs publisher : University of California eScholarship Repository - authors : Bret A Beheim, Adrian V Bell title : "Inheritance, ecology and the evolution of the canoes of East Oceania" year : 2011 journal : "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences" volume : 278, pp.3089–3095 doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0060 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/polynesian-canoe-analysis publisher : The Royal Society Publishing - authors : Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Bret A Beheim title : Understanding the nature of wealth and its effects on human fitness year : 2011 journal : "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences" doi : https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0231 volume : 366, pp.344–356 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/wealth-mortality-pimbwe publisher : The Royal Society Publishing - authors : Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, Adrian Bell, Jan Beise, Greg Clark, Ila Fazzio, Michael Gurven, Kim Hill, Paul L. Hooper, William Irons, Hillard Kaplan, Donna Leonetti, Bobbi Low, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, Suresh Naidu, David Nolin, Patrizio Piraino, Rob Quinlan, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary Shenk, Eric Alden Smith, Christopher von Rueden, Polly Wiessner title : "Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies" year : 2009 journal : Science volume : Vol. 326, Issue 5953, pp. 682-688 publisher : American Association for the Advancement of Science doi : https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1178336 materials : https://github.com/babeheim/wealth-transmission role : data analysis theses supervised: - author : Leonie Ette title : "An ecological and postcolonial approach to multilingualism" degree : Bachelor of Arts, Leipzig University Institute of Romance Studies, Department of Spanish Linguistics date : 2020-04-23 - author : Anja Becker title : "Evaluation of the Spanish language knowledge among an indigenous Amazonian horticulturalist group" degree : Bachelor of Arts, Leipzig University Institute of Romance Studies, Department of Spanish Linguistics date : 2018-09-25 - author : Anja Becker title : "Lactase non-persistence among populations outside of Europe without traditional dairying practices: Modelling hydrogen breath test data" degree : Master of Science, Leipzig University, Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy date : 2020-11-03 grants, fellowships, awards: - MPI-EVA Senior Researcher Funding Line. $56,754 startup, $56,754 annual budget over five years, 2016-2021. - The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging”, Co-Investigator, National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging. $590,659. 2005 - Administrative Supplement to The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging”, Co-Investigator National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging. $15,000. 2004 - Surviving the Flood - Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Resilience among Tsimane Forager-Farmers of Bolivia”, Co-Investigator, National Science Foundation. $126,000. 2014 - Graduate Fellowship Block Grant, The University of California. $10,800. 2009 - Graduate Scholars Fellowship in Ecology, The University of California. $34,022. 2007 - Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society. 2004 presentations: - The Adaptive Logic of False Beliefs, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting, 2019-04-26 - Improving Reproducibility in Evolutionary Anthropology, Santa Fe Institute ENDOW workshop, 2020-02-06 - Open Science in the Field, Open Science and Reproducibility workshop, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, 2019-03-13 - Milk consumption is globally widespread and increasing - Time to rewrite the textbooks? Cultural Evolution Society Meeting, 2018 - Japanese Milk Consumption - Asymptomatic Lactose Intolerance Following a Recent Cultural Diffusion. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting, 2018 - Atherosclerosis as a Culturally-Transmitted Disease among Acculturating Horticulturalists. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Meeting, 2018-04-07 - What evolutionary mechanisms drive cultural change? Poster presented at the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Meeting, 2017 - Beyond conformity in cultural diffusion - Knowledge, opportunity and motivation Cultural Evolution Society Meeting. 2017 - Advances in studying cultural diffusions, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Hokkaido University. 2017 - Transparency and reproducibility in observational research - lessons from anthropology, Yale's Day of Data, co-presented with Dr. Melanie Martin, 2016 - Anthropological Research as Software Development Yale Department of Anthropology, 2016 - Social diffusion of gasoline motors in the Bolivian Amazon, American Anthropological Association Conference, 2016 - Estimating Heritability of Reaction Norms Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and Family Structure, Santa Fe Institute, 2015 - Cultural Evolution in Games of Chess and Go. American Anthropological Association Meeting. 2015 - Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction is an Uncommon Finding in a Pre-Industrial Society with High Inflammation and Low Atherosclerotic Risk Factors. American Heart Association Meeting. 2015 - What evolutionary processes drive cultural change?, Evolutionary Demography Society Meeting. 2014 - Slow cardiovascular aging and rare infarcts among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting. 2014 - Evolutionary dynamics in the Game of Go. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles. 2013 - Strategic Social Learning and Evolutionary Arms Races in the Game of Go Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2012 - Inferring General Mechanisms of Cultural Evolution in Observational Settings Dissertation Exit Seminar, UC Davis, Davis, California, 2012 - Evolutionary Decomposition and the Dynamics of Inequality. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2012 - Developing Measures of Cultural Variation and Dynamics in Hokkaido, Japan. Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011 - Inheritance and Ecology - Canoe Evolution in Fiji and Polynesia. 3UC Evolutionary Anthropology Conference. 2009 - Japan’s Cultural Inoculation, The Radiation and Retreat of Firearms and Christianity. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting. 2008 fieldwork: - San Borja, Bolivia (4 weeks, 2019) - Tsimane' Near-river Communities, Bolivia (6 weeks, 2019) - Tsimane' Near-river Communities, Bolivia (6 weeks, 2018) - Tsimane' Near-river Communities, Bolivia (5 weeks, 2017) - Hokkaido Dairy Communities, Japan (11 weeks, 2017) - Tsimane' Near-river Communities, Bolivia (7 weeks, 2014) - Tsimane' Upriver Communities, Bolivia (8 weeks, 2013) teaching: - as primary instructor: - Reproducible Workflows for Scientific Computing (Software Carpentry), taught 2019, 2020 - The Human Life Course (ANTH 160), taught 2013, 2014, 2015 - Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTH 360), taught 2014 - Research Computing in Evolutionary Anthropology (ANTH 560), taught 2014 - Workshop on Statistical Rethinking, taught in 2016 - Evolution and Human Nature (ANT 50), taught 2011 - Applied Research Methods (ESP 178), taught 2011, 2012 - Cultural Ecology (ANT 102), taught 2010 - as teaching assistant: - Ecology and Evolution (BIS 2B), taught 2010, 2011, 2012 - Physical Anthopology (ANT 1), taught 2011 - Ecology and Politics (ANT 131), taught 2009 - Current Issues in the Environment (ESP 10), taught 2009 supervision, training, mentorship: - postdoctoral: - Daniel Redhead, Ph.D., September 2018 to November 2020, MPI-EVA - doctoral: - Han Tran, October 2018 - November 2021, University of Leipzig / MPI-EVA - Natalia Federova, starting August 2017, University of Leipzig / MPI-EVA - Riana Minocher, starting January 2018, University of Leipzig / MPI-EVA - masters, bachelors: - Anja Becker, Bachelor's & Master's Theses, 2018 and 2020, University of Leipzig - Leonie Ettie, Bachelor's Thesis, 2020, University of Leipzig service positions: - Data Director, Tsimane Health and Life History Project, 2012 - present - Group Leader, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, MPI-EVA - MPI-EVA Worker's Council ('Betriebsrat') reserve member, 2018-2019 - MPI-EVA Seminar Selection Committee - Webmaster, Evolutionary Anthropology Society, evanthsoc.org open source software: - yamltools - a suite of tools for parsing interview-like data streams - longformer - kolam package (https://github.com/nhtran93/kolam) - kernelgon - kaya - chessparse - R package for parsing and analyzing Chess games in .pgn format - journaltools public essays, white papers and tutorials: - Beheim, B. (2019) Missing data, moralizing gods, and the siren song of Aeiea, http://babeheim.com/2019/09/19/song-of-aeiea.html - Beheim, B. (2017) Text Mining the Human Behavioral Ecology Bibliography, http://babeheim.com/2017/06/15/text-mining-the-HBEB.html - Beheim, B. (2017) Generating Ties to Explore Social Network Connectivity, http://babeheim.com/2017/06/02/modeling-network-tie-counts.html - Lubell, M., Beheim, B., Hillis, V., Handy, S. (2009) Achieving Sustainability in California’s Central Valley. UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center - Beheim, B., Reis, M. (2003) A Theory of Social Formalism, The Four Horsemen and the New Deal. *Law and Society Review at the University of California, Santa Barbara* II, pp. 85-94. article reviews: - Evolutionary Human Sciences - Royal Society Open Science - Science Advances - PLOS ONE - Current Anthropology - Journal of Theoretical Biology - Advances in Complex Systems - Human Nature - Cliodynamics - Plos ONE - Evolution and Human Behavior grant reviewing: - NSF Cultural Anthropology professional memberships past and present: - Software Carpentry / Data Carpentry certification, December 2018 - American Anthropological Association (since 2015) - Human Behavior and Evolution Society (since 2018) - European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (since 2017) - American Association of Physical Anthropologists (since 2015) - California Undergraduate Anthropology Conference (Principle Organizer), May 2004 - Anthropology Student Union President, UC Santa Barbara (2003-2004) recent collaborators: - Brian Wood (UCLA) - Jeremy Koster (U. of Cinncinati/MPI-EVA) - Masanori Takezawa (Hokudai) - Cody Ross (MPI-EVA) - Daniel Redhead (MPI-EVA) - Tom Kraft (UCSB) - Paul Hooper (SFI) - Herman Pontzer (Duke) - Michael Gurven (UCSB) - Adrian Jaeggi (University of Zürich) - Aaron Blackwell (UW Pullman) - Anne Pisor (UW Pullman) - Sam Bowles (SFI) - Paul Smaldino (UC Merced) - Ryan Baldini (Seagate Technology) - Eric Schniter (Chapman) - Jonathan Stieglitz (IAST-Toulouse) - Richard McElreath (MPI-EVA) - Ben Trumble (ASU) - Siobhán Mattison (UNM) - Melissa Emery Thompson (UNM) - Chris Rowan (UNMH Cardiology) - Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (UCD) language and technical proficiency: - Japanese, intermediate - Spanish, intermediate - German, intermediate - Tsimane', basic - Markup Languages; TeX, HTML, Markdown, JSON, YAML - Computing Environments; R, ArcGIS, Stata, MATLAB, UNIX shell - Mathematics through Calculus and Linear Algebra avocations: - Go (weiqui); 5 kyu on Kisedo Go Server - Rowing, 101,000 meters rowed - Raspberry Pi programming - Cycling to work - Rock collecting - Music; Saxophone, Piano, Soprano Recorder professional references: - who : Dr. Richard McElreath title : Director department : Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture institution : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology email : richard_mcelreath@eva.mpg.de relationship: Dissertation committee member, collaborator, director of home department at MPI - who : Dr. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder title : Professor Emeritus department : Department of Anthropology institution : University of California at Davis email : mborgerhoffmulder@gmail.com relationship: Dissertation committee member, collaborator, organizer of Santa Fe Institute projects - who : Dr. Peter J. Richerson title : Professor department : Department of Environmental Sciences institution : University of California at Davis email : pjricherson@ucdavis.edu relationship: Dissertation supervisor - who : Dr. Silke Atmaca title : Research Coordinator department : Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture institution : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology email : silke_atmaca@eva.mpg.de relationship: collaborator, co-leader of Data Provenance Research Group - who : Dr. Siobhán M. Mattison title : Associate Professor department : Department of Anthropology institution : University of New Mexico email : smattison@unm.edu relationship: Postdoctoral mentor - who : Dr. Hillard Kaplan title : Research Professor department : Economics institution : Chapman University email : hillard.kaplan@gmail.com relationship: Postdoctoral supervisor, collaborator, co-director of Tsimane Health and Life History project - who : Dr. Michael Gurven title : Professor department : Anthropology institution : University of California at Santa Barbara email : gurven@gmail.com relationship: Collaborator, co-director of Tsimane Health and Life History project