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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 the chair of the anthropology department, consulting editor for Human Nature, and serve as treasurer of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
 

Select and Recent Publications

• 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

• Birth Order, Sibling Investment, and Fertility among the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung), (Patricia Draper, first author) Human Nature Vol. 11, No. 2: 117-156 (2000)

• 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)

• Human Behavioral Ecology
   International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
  Pergamon, Oxford. Pp. 6946-695 (2001)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Meal Sharing among the Ye'kwana (With Carl McCabe) Human Nature 18 (1):1-22 (2007)

• The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate Annual Review of Anthropology 36 (2007)

• Paolisso, M. and R. Hames "Methods for the Systematic Study of Human Behavior, Field Methods (2010).

• “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)

• 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.

• "Statement on the Publication of Alice Dreger’s Investigation, Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale".  Human Nature 22 (1) (2011)

• A survey of non-classical polyandry.  Katie Starkweather and Raymond Hames.  Human Nature (in press). 

• 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)

• "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) (in press).