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Lawrence
S. Sugiyama (B.A., 1985, M.A., 1991, Ph.D., 1996,
UC-Santa
Barbara) has been an assistant professor at UO
since
1996. Lawrence Sugiyama is an evolutionary psychologist and human
behavioral ecologist who works at the intersection of cultural and
physical anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and
cognitive psychology, asking questions about the nature and evolution
of the human mind and the effects of this evolution upon behavior and
culture. Since 1993, Dr. Sugiyama has conducted fieldwork among
the Achuar, Shiwiar, and Zaparo forager-horticulturalist groups of
Ecuadorian Amazonia. Previously he worked with the Yora of Peru
and the Yanomamö of Venezuela. He is a faculty member in the Institute of Cognitive and
Decision Sciences (ICDS) and Field Research Director for the Human
Universals Project at the Center
for Evolutionary Psychology at University of
California at Santa Barbara. Larry’s recent work has been published in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, Human Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior, and
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Recent publications
include "Juvenile responses to household ecology among the Yora of
Peruvian Amazonia" (2004), "Illness,
Injury, and Disability among Shiwiar Forager-Horticulturalists:
Implications of Health-Risk Buffering for the Evolution of Human Life
History" (2004), "Is beauty in the context-sensitive adaptations of
the beholder: Shiwiar use of waist-to-hip ratio in assessments of
female mate value?" (2004), "Social
Roles, Prestige and Health Risk: Social Niche Specialization as
a Risk Buffering Strategy" (2003), "Cross-cultural Evidence of
Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange among the Shiwiar of
Ecuadorian Amazonia" (2002), and "Effects of Illness and Injury on
Foraging among the Yora and Shiwiar: Pathology Risk as Adaptive
Problem" (2000). Forthcoming articles include "Foragers fitness and
formal variation: Where's the adaptation in adaptationist archaeology?"
(2004), "Shiwiar Health Risk and the Evolution of Health Care
Provisioning" (2004), and "Does the incidence and duration of
health insults among Shiwiar forager-horticulturalists indicate that
health care provisioning reduces juvenile mortality?" (2004). For more
on some of Larry's recent research findings, click on the Center link
above. Prospective graduate students interested in Evolutionary
Psychology or Human Behavioral Ecology are encouraged to contact me.
Contact information: (541) 346-5142. |
