Jane Lancaster
Distinguished Professor
Editor, Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective
- At UNM since
- 1985
- Email:
- jlancas@unm.edu
- Phone:
- (505) 990-8536
- Curriculum vitae
- Website/s:
- http://www.unm.edu/~jlancas/
Recent Courses:
- Primate Social Behavior: Behavioral Ecology and Biology of Sex Roles (ANTH 363/661)
- Primate Social Behavior: Great Apes: Mind and Behavior (ANTH 363/662)
- Seminar: Human Reproductive Biology and Ecology (ANTH 561)
Education:
BA (cum laude), Wellesley College (1958)
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1967)
Dissertation: "Primate Communication Systems and the Emergence of Human Language"
Research:
Primate social behavior, evolution of human behavior, reproductive biology, parental investment, life history.
Recent Publications:
School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Perspectives, Second Edition Jane B. Lancaster and B. Hamburg eds. (with a new introduction) Second Edition, Transactions Publishers, Piscataway, NJ, 403 pages, 2008.
Confidence of paternity, divorce, and investment in children by Albuquerque men. G. Anderson, H. Kaplan and J. Lancaster. Evolution and Human Behavior 28:1-10, 2007.
Motherhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Karen L. Kramer and Jane B. Lancaster. Annals of Human Biology, 2010.
Chimpanzee and Human Intelligence: Life history, diet and the mind. Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard Kaplan. In: Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson, (eds.), The Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY, Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 111-120.
Brain Evolution and the Human Adaptive Complex. Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael Gurven, and Jane B. Lancaster. In: Steven W. Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson, (eds.), The Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies. NY, Guilford Press, 2007, pp. 269-279.
The Evolution of Diet, Brain and Life History among Primates and Humans. Kaplan, S. Gangestad, M. Gurven, J. Lancaster, T. Mueller and A. Robson. In: W. Roebroeks, ed. Guts and brains: An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2007, pp. 47-90.
Introduction. J.B. Lancaster, A. Geronimus, B. Hamburg, and K. Kramer. In: School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Perspectives. Jane B. Lancaster and B. Hamburg, eds., Second Edition, Transactions Publishers, Piscataway, NJ, 2008, pp. ix-xxxi.
The Endocrinology of the Human Adaptive Complex. Jane B. Lancaster and Hillard S. Kaplan. T. Ellison and P. G. Gray, Eds. Endocrinology of Social Relationships, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 95-119.
Kaplan, H. S., K. Hill, J. B. Lancaster and A. M. Hurtado, A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity. Evolutionary Anthropology 9(4):156-185, 2000. Reprinted in: J. M. Broughton and M. D. Cannon, eds., Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology: Applications to Problems in Human Evolution and Prehistory. University of Utah Press, 2009, pp. 48-81.
Embodied Capital and Human Evolution. J. B. Lancaster and H. Kaplan. In: M. Muehlenbein, ed. Human Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, in press.
