New York Times Article Highlights Project Economic Science Institute Researchers are involved with

September 24th, the New York Times featured “In Bolivian Amazon, a Yardstick for Modern Health” discussing the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, which Dr. Hillard Kaplan, an affiliate of the Economic Science Institute (ESI), and Dr. Eric Schniter, a Post Doctoral Research Associate Professor with ESI are both involved with. ESI’s Dr. Nathaniel Wilcox, has also been involved with analysis of data that Dr. Eric Schniter collected concerning the recognition of experts among Tsimane.

In addition to investigating health, the Tsimane (Health and Life History) Project also tests Life History Theory which is concerned with the strategic scheduling of an organism’s reproduction and production across the lifespan. The optimal scheduling of growth, reproduction, and production among indigenous people in subsistence societies involves many tradeoffs – and the study of these tradeoffs is of interests to economists as well as biologists and anthropologists.

Check out the article to learn more about the project and what researchers are learning.