# Ed Hagen (@edhagen.net)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/edhagen.net
Headline: I'm an anthropologist specializing in evolutionary medicine

## About

Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/

Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.

## Experience

- **Professor at Washington State University**

## Publications

- Academic papers should become Bluesky accounts (yes, really)
- The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory: An Integrative Framework for Human Leadership Diversity (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/emyab_v3)
- The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory: An Integrative Framework for Human Leadership Diversity (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/emyab_v4)
- The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory: An Integrative Framework for Human Leadership Diversity (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/emyab_v2)
- The Natural History of Child Signals of Need in Utila, Honduras — Human Nature (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-025-09495-9)
- The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter (https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gawbt_v1)
- Vocalizations are ideal identity signals (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c3dz4)
- The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory: An Integrative Framework for Human Leadership Diversity (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/emyab)
- Woman the Hunter? Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real (https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.23.581721)
- Decision-making expertise, intelligence, and social alliances are associated with conflict resolution skills among recently settled Ethiopian hunter-gatherers (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gxh92)
- Ethnomedical Specialists and their Supernatural Theories of Disease — Review of Philosophy and Psychology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00589-8)
- Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo — American Journal of Biological Anthropology (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24718)
- In need-based sharing, sharing is more important than need — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Response to: "Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no" — Evolution and Human Behavior
- The impact of gossip, reputation, and context on resource transfers among Aka hunter-gatherers, Ngandu horticulturalists, and MTurkers — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Bargaining and interdependence: common parent-offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior — American Anthropologist
- The Biological Roots of Music and Dance — Human Nature
- Religion: the WEIRDest concept in the world? — Religion, Brain & Behavior (https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.1991460)
- Correction to: Ethnomedical Specialists and their Supernatural Theories of Disease — Review of Philosophy and Psychology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00633-1)
- The hungry, striving, sociable, parasitized, and slightly buzzed monkey — American Journal of Biological Anthropology (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24481)
- Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Strength is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference — Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoac007)
- All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities — Human Nature
- Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world? — Behavioral and Brain Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21002296)
- Competitive gossip: the impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0305)
- Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music — Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures — Evolutionary Human Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.31)
- Origins of music in credible signaling — Behavioral and Brain Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000345)
- The impact of information about tobacco-related reproductive vs. general health risks on South Indian women's tobacco use decisions — Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Acculturation and market integration are associated with greater trust among Tanzanian Maasai pastoralists (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/aqfyn)
- In Memoriam — Human Nature
- Mental Health Is Biological Health: Why Tackling ``Diseases of the Mind'' Is an Imperative for Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century — American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-Group Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective — The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
- Household Composition and the Infant Fecal Microbiome: The INSPIRE Study — American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- The Prehistory of Psychoactive Drug Use — Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology
- Investigating Evolutionary Models of Leadership among Recently Settled Ethiopian Hunter-Gatherers — The Leadership Quarterly
- Leadership and prestige, mothering, sexual selection, and encephalization: The computational services model (https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9bcdk)
- Evolutionary Models of Leadership: Tests and Synthesis — Human Nature
- When Saying ``Sorry'' Isn't Enough: Is Some Suicidal Behavior a Costly Signal of Apology?: A Cross-Cultural Test — Human Nature
- The Evolutionary Anthropology of Political Leadership — The Leadership Quarterly
- Mapping the Terra Incognita of Economic Cognition Will Require an Experimental Paradigm That Incorporates Context — Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Social Networks, Cooperative Breeding, and the Human Milk Microbiome — American Journal of Human Biology
- The Evolutionary Significance of Drug Toxicity Over Reward — The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction
- DHEAS Patterning across Childhood in Three Sub-Saharan Populations: Associations with Age, Sex, Ethnicity, and Cortisol — American Journal of Human Biology
- Correction to ‘Radical framing effects in the ultimatum game: the impact of explicit culturally transmitted frames on economic decision-making’ — Royal Society Open Science (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180120)
- Innate Food Aversions and Culturally Transmitted Food Taboos in Pregnant Women in Rural Southwest India: Separate Systems to Protect the Fetus? — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Models of Depression: A Comparison Using Register Data on Antidepressant Medication during Divorce — PLOS ONE
- Persistence of Infant Care Patterns Among Aka Foragers — Hunter-Gatherers in a Changing World
- Radical Framing Effects in the Ultimatum Game: The Impact of Explicit Culturally Transmitted Frames on Economic Decision-Making — Royal Society Open Science
- Testing the Psychological Pain Hypothesis for Postnatal Depression: Reproductive Success versus Evidence of Design — Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
- A Biocultural Investigation of Gender Differences in Tobacco Use in an Egalitarian Hunter-Gatherer Population — Human Nature
- Testing the Bargaining vs. Inclusive Fitness Models of Suicidal Behavior against the Ethnographic Record — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Explaining the Sex Difference in Depression with a Unified Bargaining Model of Anger and Depression — Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
- The Low Prevalence of Female Smoking in the Developing World: Gender Inequality or Maternal Adaptations for Fetal Protection? — Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
- High Prevalence of Cannabis Use among Aka Foragers of the Congo Basin and Its Possible Relationship to Helminthiasis: CANNABIS USE AMONG AKA FORAGERS OF THE CONGO BASIN — American Journal of Human Biology
- Fetal Protection: The Roles of Social Learning and Innate Food Aversions in South India — Human Nature
- Evolutionary Psychology and Its Critics — The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
- Tobacco Use vs. Helminths in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers: Self-Medication in Humans? — Evolution and Human Behavior
- A Test of Three Hypotheses of Pica and Amylophagy among Pregnant Women in Tamil Nadu, India: A Test of Three Hypotheses of Pica and Amylophagy — American Journal of Human Biology
- Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies — Current Anthropology
- Explaining Human Recreational Use of `Pesticides': The Neurotoxin Regulation Model of Substance Use vs. the Hijack Model and Implications for Age and Sex Differences in Drug Consumption — Frontiers in Psychiatry
- What Can Evolution Do for Us? — Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making
- Evolutionary Theories of Depression: A Critical Review — The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Why Do We Take Drugs? From the Drug-Reinforcement Theory to a Novel Concept of Drug Instrumentalization — Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Interpersonal Aggression among Aka Hunter-Gatherers of the Central African Republic: Assessing the Effects of Sex, Strength, and Anger — Human Nature
- Human Natures — A Review of The 10,000 Year Explosion — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Cooperative Breeding and Adolescent Siblings: Evidence for the Ecological Constraints Model? — Current Anthropology
- Did Neanderthals and Other Early Humans Sing? Seeking the Biological Roots of Music in the Territorial Advertisements of Primates, Lions, Hyenas, and Wolves — Musicae Scientiae
- The Dopamine Puzzle — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Ecology and Neurobiology of Toxin Avoidance and the Paradox of Drug Reward — Neuroscience
- Gestures of Despair and Hope: A View on Deliberate Self-Harm From Economics and Evolutionary Biology — Biological Theory
- Nonbizarre Delusions as Strategic Deception — Medicine and Evolution
- Revealing the Paradox of Drug Reward in Human Evolution — Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- New Genealogy: It's Not Just for Kinship Anymore — Field Methods
- The East Indian Diaspora in Costa Rica: Inbreeding Avoidance, Marriage Patterns, and Cultural Survival — American Anthropologist
- Perinatal Sadness among Shuar Women: Support for an Evolutionary Theory of Psychic Pain — Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- Natural Psychology: The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness and the Structure of Cognition — The Evolution of Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies
- Psychological Adaptations for Assessing Gossip Veracity — Human Nature
- Do Human Parents Face a Quantity-Quality Tradeoff?: Evidence from a Shuar Community — American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- The Strategic View of Biological Agents — Biological Theory
- Game Theory and Human Evolution: A Critique of Some Recent Interpretations of Experimental Games — Theoretical Population Biology
- Sex Differences in Indirect Aggression — Evolution and Human Behavior
- EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: Broken Cogs or Strategic Agents? — Science
- Robustness: A Key to Evolutionary Design — Biological Theory
- The Strategy Concept and John Maynard Smith's Influence on Theoretical Biology — Biology & Philosophy
- The Second Wave of Evolutionary Economics in Biology — Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Controversial Issues in Evolutionary Psychology — The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
- Evolutionary Biology and the Strategic View of Ontogeny: Genetic Strategies Provide Robustness and Flexibility in the Life Course — Research in Human Development
- Music and Dance as a Coalition Signaling System — Human Nature
- The Bargaining Model of Depression — Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
- Psychotropic Substance-Seeking: Evolutionary Pathology or Adaptation? — Addiction
- Depression as Bargaining The Case Postpartum — Evolution and Human Behavior
- PARENTAL INVESTMENT AND CHILD HEALTH IN A YANOMAMÖ VILLAGE SUFFERING SHORT-TERM FOOD STRESS — Journal of Biosocial Science
- Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts - J. Burnham, J. Phelan, Cambridge, MA:Perseus Publishing, 2000, 263 Pp. ISBN 0-738-20230-4. Perseus Publishing, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. — Politics and the Life Sciences
- Sweet Savage Love: FA, BO, and SES in the EEA — Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- The Functions of Postpartum Depression — Evolution and Human Behavior
- Synthesis and Photochemistry of Sulfonium Ion Polymers. Arylated and Alkylated Poly(p-Phenylene Sulfide) Derivatives

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