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I received my doctorate in anthropology from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 1978. Most of my research is on native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye'kwana) with funding from the NSF, LSB Leakey Foundation, and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. My research interests are in behavioral ecology, food & labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, kin and parental investment, and Amazonia. I regularly teach courses on social structure, contentious issues in anthropology, warfare, and introductory cultural anthropology. I am also president-elect of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society of the American Anthropological Association, consulting editor for Human Nature, and serve as treasurer of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
Select and Recent Publications
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Ye'kwana Behavioral and Locational Data Base
Visit this experimental web page devoted to analyzing quantitative data Amazonian village behavior and location in a Ye'kwana village
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Birth Order, Sibling Investment, and Fertility among the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung), (Patricia Draper, first author) Human Nature Vol. 11, No. 2: 117-156 (2000)
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Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering Short-term Food Stress.
Edward H. Hagen Raymond B. Hames, Nathan M. Craig, Matthew T. Lauer, Michael E. Price, Journal of Biosocial Sciences (2001)
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Human Behavioral Ecology
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Pergamon, Oxford. Pp. 6946-695 (2001)
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The Nexus of Yanomamö Growth, Health, and Demography
In Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication
F. Salzano and A. Hurtado, eds. Oxford University Press. Pp. 110-146. (With Jennifer Kuzara) (2004)
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Women's work, child care and helpers at the nest in a hunter-gatherer society. (With Patricia Draper) Human Nature, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 319-341 (2004)
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Growth rates and life histories in 22 small-scale societies (Robert Walker senior author with 12 co-authors!)American Journal of Human Biology 18:295–311 (2006)
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Meal Sharing among the Ye'kwana (With Carl McCabe) Human Nature 18 (1):1-22 (2007)
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The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate Annual Review of Anthropology 36 (2007)
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Paolisso, M. and R. Hames "Methods for the Systematic Study of Human Behavior, Field Methods (2010).
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Production Decisions and Time Allocation. In Society and Environment: Methods and Research Design. Vaccaro, Ismael , Eric Alden Smith and Shankar Aswani (eds.) Cambridge University Press. (2010)
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Grandparental transfers and kin selection. Invited and reviewed commentary on D. Coall and R. Hertwig Grandparental Investment: Past, Present, and Future. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2010) - go to page 26.
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"Statement on the Publication of Alice Dregers Investigation, Darknesss Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale". Human Nature 22:222-223 (2011)
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A survey of non-classical polyandry. Katie Starkweather and Raymond Hames. Human Nature (2012)23:149–172
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"Sex differences in spatial abilities: Methodological problems in Hoffman et al." Drew H. Bailey, Richard A. Lippa, Marco Del Giudice, Raymond Hames, & David C. Geary. PNAS (letter to editor) (2012).
- "Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia" (with Ray Blanchard, second author) Archives of Sexual Behavior, Volume 41, Number 4, Pages 745-747
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Direct and Indirect Behavior Observations. In R. Bernard and C. Gravlee, eds. "The Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology", 3rd Ed., Altimira Press: New York. (in press)
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