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ADAM HOWELL BOYETTE [email protected] +1 503-752-8638 Research Interests: Social learning, cultural transmission, egalitarianism, social bonding, play, anthropology of childhood, hunter-gatherers, Africa Education PhD (ABD), 2012, Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA MA, Anthropology, 2006, Washington State University, Pullman, WA BA, Psychobiology (with Honors), 2002, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Published Manuscripts Hewlett, B. S, Fouts, H. N., Boyette, A. H. & Hewlett, B. L. (2011) Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 366: 1168-1178. Alfaro, J. W. L., Matthews, L., Boyette, A. H., Macfarlan, S. J., Phillips, K. A., Falótico, T., Ottoni, E., Verderane, M., Izar, P., Schulte, M., Melin, A., Fedigan, L., Janson, C. and Alfaro, M. E. (2011). Anointing variation across wild capuchin populations: a review of material preferences, bout frequency and anointing sociality in Cebus and Sapajus. American Journal of Primatology. Book Chapters Hewlett, Barry and Adam H. Boyette (In Press). Commentary: Play in HunterGatherers. In Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development: From Research to Practice and Policy. Narvaez, D., Panksepp, J., Schore, A., & Gleason, T. (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. Hewlett, Barry S., Hillary N. Fouts, Adam H. Boyette, and Bonnie L. Hewlett (2012) Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. In Culture Evolves. Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, and Kevin N. Laland (Eds.) Oxford University press. Submitted Manuscripts Boyette, Adam Howell (N.d.) An Ethology of Social Learning During Middle Childhood among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Central African Republic. House, Bailey R., Joan B. Silk, Joseph Henrich, H. Clark Barrett, Brooke Scelza, Adam Boyette, Barry Hewlett, and Stephen Laurence (N.d.) Cross-cultural diversity in the ontogeny of prosocial behavior. Scott, Isabel M, Steven C Josephson, Adam Boyette, Mhairi Gibson, Barry Hewlett, Mark Jamieson, William Jankowiak, P Lynne Honey, Zejun Huang, Ben G Purzycki, John Shaver, Richard Sosis, Lawrence S Sugiyama, Viren Swami, Doug Yu, Yangke Zhao, and Ian S Penton-Voak (N.d.). Facial dimorphism preferences in a crosscultural sample: a test of evolutionary hypotheses. Manuscripts In Prep Boyette, Adam Howell (N.d.) An observational study of cultural transmission during childhood in two small-scale societies. Boyette, Adam Howell, Ed H. Hagen, Barry S. Hewlett. (N.d.) The effects of cultural 1 ADAM HOWELL BOYETTE [email protected] +1 503-752-8638 norms and reputational concern on children’s daily sharing among huntergatherers and farmers in the Central Africa Republic. Boyette, Adam Howell (N.d.) Physical contact and attachment among foragers: implications for egalitarianism. Boyette, Adam Howell (N.d.) The role of children’s play in human niche construction: public policy implications. Unpublished Manuscripts Boyette, Adam Howell (2006) Parental Investment and Men’s Sexual Behavior: Life history Theory and Reproductive Strategies in a Sample of American Men. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Washington State University. Reports Boyette, Adam Howell (2012) The nature of play among Aka forest foragers and Ngandu farmers of the Central African Republic. Replacement Drama Project, A-02 Research Group Annual Report. Kobe Gakuin Universtiy, Kobe Japan. Invited Talks, Conference Presentations, and Posters 2012 Boyette, Adam Howell, Elements of Social Learning Among Hunter-Gatherer and Farmer Children in the Central African Republic. Poster, Human Evolution and Human Development Symposium, The Center for Children and Families, University of Notre Dame. 2012 Boyette, Adam Howell, Physical Contact and Egalitarianism Among Hunter Gatherers and Farmers in the Central African Republic: An Ontogenetic Perspective, Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland, OR. 2011 Boyette, Adam Howell (Session Organizer), The Ontogeny of Resource Sharing During Aka Forager Childhood: Tracing the Origins of Egalitarianism, Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal. 2011 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Nature of Play among Aka Forest Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Central African Republic, Paper presentation, meeting of the A02 Team of the Replacement Drama Project, Kobe, Japan. 2010 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Transmission of Culture During Childhood: Aka Forest Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of CAR, Paper presentation, International Conference on Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers, Montpellier, France. 2010 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Prominence of Other Children in Culture Learning During Aka Forager Early through Late Childhood, Paper presentation, Integrated annual meeting of the Society for Cross-cultural Research/Society for Anthropological Sciences, Albuquerque, NM. 2010 Boyette, Adam Howell, Aka Childhood: Trends and Implications, Paper presentation, Workshop on Recent Research among Congo Basin HunterGatherers and Farmers, Albuquerque, NM. 2009 Boyette, Adam Howell, “The Giving Environment” as Pedagogical Context: an 2 ADAM HOWELL BOYETTE [email protected] +1 503-752-8638 Empirical Account of Aka Forager Children’s Social Learning and What it Means for the Transmission of Culture, Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2009 Boyette, Adam Howell, Culture in Transmission: A Quantative Account of Daily Learning among Aka Forest Forager Children from Middle to Late Childhood. Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton, CA. 2009 Boyette, Adam Howell (Session Organizer), Learning Before Schooling: What We Can Learn About Teaching from Traditional Education Practices. Paper presention, Annual Northwestern Anthropological Conference, Newport, OR. 2008 Boyette, Adam Howell, Scaffolding for Cooperative Breeding Among Aka Foragers. Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. 2008 Boyette, Adam Howell, Male Reproductive Strategies: an Analysis of Rearing Environment Effects on Paternal Investment. Paper presentation, Integrated conference of the Society for Cross-cultural Research/Society for Anthropological Sciences, New Orleans, LA. 2007 Boyette, Adam Howell, Rearing Environment and Male Sexual Behavior: Evidence for Adaptive Response and Cultural Influence. Paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. 2007 Boyette, Adam Howell, Rearing Environment and Male Sexual Behavior: Evidence for Adaptive Response and Socialization. Paper presentation, Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Pullman, WA. 2006 Boyette, Adam H., Sexuality and the Adapted Self: Parental Effects on Personality and Reproductive Strategy. Paper presentation, Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Seattle, WA. 2005 Boyette, Adam H. and John Q. Patton, Dictator Game Play and Colaitional Cohesion in the Eduadorian Amazon: A Community by Community Analysis of Strategic Generosity. Poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. 2005 Boyette, Adam H. and Shane Macfarlan, Misahualli: Field Observations of Metropolitan Monkeys and Implications for Ecotourism and the Ecology of Behavioral Traditions. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University. 2004 Boyette, Adam H. and Shane Macfarlan, Exploring the Conundrum of Altruism Through Third Party Punishment Games. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University. Teaching Experience 2012 Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity, Washington State University, Vancouver 2011 Human Ecology and Adaptation, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia 2011 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Washington State University, Vancouver 2011 Intro to Physical Anthropology (Lab), Washington State University, Vancouver 2009 Cultural Ecology, Washington State University, Vancouver 2007 Sex, Evolution and Human Behavior, Washington State University, Vancouver 3 ADAM HOWELL BOYETTE [email protected] +1 503-752-8638 Fellowships 2007-2009, Extension Spring 2012, NSF IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling 2005 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Grants and Awards 2011 Fulbright Program Visiting Graduate Student Lecturer, Hawassa University, $2400 2010 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $608 2010 WSU Graduate Student Travel Grant, $254 2009 Society for Anthropological Sciences AAA Student Paper Prize, $200 2009 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $600 2009 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $360 2009 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, $12,360 Films 2011 Boyette, Adam Howell. Dance at Lobanje. https://vimeo.com/27981735 2007 Boyette, Jeffrey B. and Adam Howell Boyette, Dirs. Nature Capital: Conservation, Tourism and the Primate’s Place. Professional Memberships American Anthropological Association (Since 2004) Evolutionary Anthropology Society (AAA Section; Since 2004) Society for Anthropological Sciences (Since 2006) Lamda Alpha (Anthropology Honors Society, WSU Chapter, since 2006) Elected Offices Student Board Representative, Evolutionary Anthropology Society, 2009-2012 Languages French Spanish DiAka (CAR) Sango (CAR) 4