Mailing address:
University of
Colorado Denver
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 103, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
(303) 556-6792
E-mail:
david.tracer@ucdenver.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology (Biological)
University of Michigan, 1991.
Dissertation: The Interaction of Nutrition and Fertility
among Au
Forager- Horticulturalists of Papua
New Guinea.
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International.
M.A., Anthropology (Biological)
University of Michigan, 1985.
B.A., Anthropology
Brandeis University, 1984.
Current Academic Positions:
Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology.
Associate Professor, Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor, Colorado School of Public Health
Selected Academic Publications:
Tracer, D.P. 2009. Breastfeeding structure as a test of parental investment theory in Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Human Biology 21:635-642.
Strand M., Perry J., Jin M., Tracer D., Fischer P., Zhang P., Xi W., and Li S. 2007. Diagnosis of Rickets and Reassessing its Prevalence Among Rural Children in Northern China. Pediatrics International 49:202-209.
Henrich J., McElreath R., Ensminger J., Barr A., Barrett C., Bolyanatz A., Cardenas J.C., Gurven M., Gwako L., Henrich N., Lesorogol C., Marlowe F., Tracer D. and Ziker J. 2006. Costly punishment across human societies. Science 312:1767-1770.
Henrich J., Boyd R., Bowles S., Camerer C., Fehr E., Gintis H., McElreath R., Alvard M., Barr A., Ensminger J., Henrich N.S., Hill K., Gil-White F., Gurven M., Marlowe F., Patton J.Q., and Tracer D. 2005. 'Economic Man' in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28:795-815.
Tracer, D.P. 2004. Market Integration, Reciprocity and Fairness in Rural Papua New Guinea: Results from a Two-Village Ultimatum Game Study. In J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E.Fehr, and H. Gintis (eds.) Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies. Oxford University Press. pp. 232-259.
Tracer, D.P. 2003. Selfishness and fairness in economic and evolutionary perspective: an experimental economic study in Papua New Guinea. Current Anthropology 44:432-438.
Tracer, D.P. 2002. Somatic versus reproductive energy allocation in Papua New Guinea: life history theory and public policy. American Journal of Human Biology 14:621-626.
Recent Research Grants and Consultancies:
2006. Fulbright Scholar Program, U.S. Department of State: Israel Senior Research Grant: Testing Evolutionary and Economic Theories of Prosociality and Justice among the Negev Bedouin in Israel.
2005. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Network on Economic Environments and the Evolution of Individual Preferences and Social Norms): Prosociality and Justice: An Ethno-Experimental Study in Papua New Guinea.
2005. University of Colorado Center for Faculty Development: Prosociality and Justice: An Ethno-Experimental Study in Papua New Guinea.
2002. The National Science Foundation: An Experimental Economic Inquiry into Fairness and Decision-Making in Papua New Guinea.