Bio
Raymond Hames is an evolutionary anthropologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His field research, supported by the National Science Foundation and the LSB Leakey Foundations, focusses on the native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö & Ye’kwana). His research topics include behavioral ecology -- an evolutionary approach to behavior -- along with marriage, wildlife conservation, food and labor exchanges, warfare and alloparental care, where individuals other than biological parents care for offspring. (Updated March 2025)