SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: Our Cooperative Nature: Contrasting Child Development in Traditional Indigenous and Industrialized Societies

Presented by: Dr. Karen Lesle Kramer

Presenter Bio: Evolutionary Ecologist and Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah; Research: evolution of human sociality and behavior, cooperative breeding, parenting and childhood. Field work in a traditional Maya Yucatec village documenting and modeling children’s time allocation, juvenile cooperation, intergenerational resource flows, female energetics, and high fertility in a pretransitional population. Research
among the Venezuelan Pumé, mobile hunter gatherers addressing questions on children’s growth, development and reproductive strategies and seasonal resource availability issues on fertility and child mortality.
Collaboration: conservation biologists & primatologists working in Madacascar highlands. Previous teaching: Harvard University, Stony Brook University.