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Kramer, Karen; Greaves, Russell (2010)
Are Domesticated Roots Replacements or Fall-Back Foods in Hunter-Gatherer Diets?
Kramer, Karen; Greaves, Russell (2010)
Juvenile Subsistence Effort, Activity Levels and Growth Patterns: Middle Childhood among Pumé Foragers.
Human Nature forthcoming Fall 2011.
Kramer, Karen; Greaves, Russell (2010)
Postmarital Residence and Bilateral Kin Associations among Hunter-Gatherers: Pumé Foragers Living in the Best of Both Worlds.
Human Nature.
Kramer, Karen (2011)
The Evolution of Parental Care and Recruitment
of Juvenile Help.
Published
Kramer, Karen; Ellison, Peter (2010)
Pooled Energy Budgets: Resituating Human Energy Allocation Trade-Offs.
Evolutionary Anthropology.
Kramer, Karen (2010)
Cooperative Breeding and its Significance to the Demographic Success of Humans.
Annual Review of Anthropology.
Kramer, Karen; Lancaster, Jane B (2010)
Teen motherhood in cross-cultural perspective.
Annals of Human Biology.
Kramer, Karen; Greaves, Russell (2010)
Synchrony Between Growth and Reproductive Patterns in Human Females: Early Investment in Growth Among
Pume´ Foragers.
American Journa of Physical Anthropology.
Kramer, Karen (2009)
Does It Take a Family to Raise a Child? Cooperative Breeding and the Contributions of Maya Siblings,
Parents and Older Adults in Raising Children.
Kramer, Karen (2009)
Early Reproductive Maturity Among Pume´ Foragers: Implications of a Pooled Energy Model to Fast Life Histories.
American Journal of Human Biology.
Kramer, Karen (2008)
Early sexual maturity among Pumé foragers of Venezuela: Fitness implications of teen motherhood.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Robinson, Rachel Sullivan; Lee, Ronald; Kramer, Karen (2008)
Counting women's labour: A reanalysis of children's net production using Cain's data from a Bangladeshi village.
Population Studies.
Kramer, Karen and Russell Greaves (2007)
Changing patterns of infant mortality and fertility among Pumé foragers and horticulturalists.
American Anthropologist 109 (4): 713-726.
Kramer, Karen (2007)
Application of an integrated cooperation approach to human cooperative breeders.
Behavioural Processes 76:167-169.
Kramer, Karen and Garnett McMillan (2006)
The effect of labor saving technology on longitudinal fertility changes.
Current Anthropology 47 (1):165-172.
Kramer, Karen (2005)
Children’s help and the pace of reproduction: Cooperative breeding in humans.
Evolutionary Anthropology 14(6): 224-237.
Kramer, Karen (2005)
Maya Children: Helpers at the Farm.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Kramer, Karen (2004)
Reconsidering the cost of childbearing: The timing of children’s helping behavior across the life cycle of Maya families. SocioEconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology, Research in Economic Anthropology, volume 23, edited
by Michael Alvard, pp 335-353. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Kramer, Karen and James Boone (2002)
Why intensive agriculturalists have higher fertility: A household labor budget approach to subsistence intensification and fertility rates. Current Anthropology 43(3):511-517.
Lee, Ronald D. and Karen Kramer (2002)
Children’s economic roles in the Maya family life cycle: Cain, Caldwell and Chayanov revisited. Population and Development Review 28(3): 475-499.
Kramer, Karen and Garnett P. McMillan (1999)
Women's labor, fertility and the introduction of modern technology in a rural Maya village. Journal of Anthropological Research 55(4): 499-520.
Kramer, Karen and Garnett P. McMillan (1998)
How Maya women respond to changing technology. The effect of helping behavior on initiating reproduction. Human Nature 9(2): 205-223.
