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(These papers can be downloaded for personal use. However, in some cases, you will need to contact the publisher if you would like permission to use a reprint for a book or course pack.) Deaner, R. O., Balish, S. M., & Lombardo, M. P. (2015). Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000049 pdf Deaner, R. O., Lowen, A, Rogers, W., & Saksa, E. (2015). Does the sex difference in competitiveness decrease in selective sub-populations? A test with intercollegiate distance runners. PeerJ, 3:e884. doi: 10.7717/peerj.884 link Deaner, R. O., Carter, R. E., Joyner, M. J., & Hunter, S. K. (2015). Men are more likely than women to slow in the marathon. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000432 pdf Deaner, R. O., Addona, V., & Mead, M. P. (2014). U.S. masters track participation reveals a stable sex difference in competitiveness. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 848-877. pdf Lombardo, M., & Deaner, R. O. (2014). You can’t teach speed: Sprinters falsify the deliberate practice model of expertise. PeerJ, 2, e445. doi:10.7717/peerj.445 link Winegard, B. M., Winegard, B., & Deaner, R. O. (2014). Misrepresentations of evolutionary psychology in sex and gender textbooks. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 474-508. pdf Lowen, A., Deaner, R. O., & Schmitt, E. (2014). Guys and gals going for gold: The role of gender empowerment in Olympic success. Journal of Sports Economics. doi: 10.1177/1527002514531791 pdf Deaner, R. O., Lutwick, L. I. (2014). A big batch of mismatch: A review of Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. Evolutionary Psychology, 12, 632-634. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Smith, B. A. (2013). Sex differences in sports across 50 societies. Cross-Cultural Research, 47, 268-309 . doi: 10.1177/1069397112463687. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Winegard, B. M. (2013). Throwing out the mismatch baby with the paleo-bathwather. A review of Marlene Zuk, Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tell Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live. Evolutionary Psychology, 11(1), 263-269. Link Deaner, R. O., Lowen, A. & Cobley, S. (2013). Born at the wrong time: Selection bias in the NHL draft. PLoS ONE Link Deaner, R. O. (2013). Distance running as an ideal domain for showing a sex difference in competitiveness. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 413-428. doi: 10.1007/s10508-012-9965-z pdf Deaner, R. O. (2012). Physiology does not explain all sex differences in running performance. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182690110 pdf Deaner, R. O. (2012). Further questions about dehumanization [Book review of Less Than Human by David Livingstone Smith]. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 6(4), 515-517. Link Deaner, R. O., Geary, D. C., Puts, D. A., Ham, S. A., Kruger, J., Fles, E., Winegard, B., & Grandis, T. (2012). A sex difference in the predisposition for physical competition: Males play sports much more than females even in the contemporary U.S.  PLoS ONE, 7(11) e49168. Link Deaner, R. O., Goetz, S. M. M., Shattuck, K., & Schnotala, T. (2012). Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, pdf Deaner, R. O., Masters, K. S., Ogles, B. M., & LaCaille, R. A. (2011). Marathon performance as a predictor of competitiveness and training in men and women. Journal of Sport Behavior, 34, 325–342. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Mitchell, D. (2011). More men run relatively fast in U.S. road races, 1981-2006: A stable sex difference in non-elite runners. Evolutionary Psychology, 9, 600–621. pdf Winegard, B., & Deaner, R. O. (2010). The evolutionary significance of Red Sox Nation: Sport fandom as a by-product of coalitional psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 432–446. pdf Deaner, R. O. (2009). Evolutionary Psychology: Lance Workman and Will Reader (book review). Integrative and Comparative Biology, 49, 82–83. pdf Shepherd, Stephen V., Klein, J. T., Deaner, R. O., & Platt, M. L. (2009). Mirroring of attention by neurons in macaque parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 9489–9494. pdf Klein, J. T., Deaner, R. O., & Platt, M. L. (2008). Neural correlates of social target value in macaque parietal cortex. Current Biology, 18, 419–424. pdf Hayden, B. Y., Parikh, P. C., Deaner, R. O., & Platt, M. L. (2007). Economic principles motivating social attention in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274, 1751–1756. pdf Deaner, R. O., Isler, K., Burkart, J., & van Schaik, C. (2007). Overall brain size, and not encephalization quotient, best predicts cognitive ability across non-human primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 70, 115–124. pdf Deaner, R. O., Shepherd, S. V., & Platt, M. L. (2007). Familiarity accentuates gaze cuing in women but not men. Biology Letters, 3, 64–67. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Shepherd, S. V. (2007). Missed connections: integrating proximate and ultimate explanations in cognitive neuroscience. A review of Steven M. Platek, Julian Paul Keenan, and Todd Shackelford (Eds.), Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 632–641. pdf Deaner, R. O. (2006). More males run relatively fast in U.S. road races: Further evidence of a sex difference in competitiveness. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 303–314. pdf Deaner, R. O., van Schaik, C. P., & Johnson, V. E. (2006). Do some taxa have better domain-general cognition than others? A meta-analysis of nonhuman primate studies. Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 149–196. pdf Deaner, R. O. (2006). More males run fast: A stable sex difference in competitiveness in US distance runners. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27, 63–84. pdf Shepherd, S. V., Deaner, R. O., & Platt, M. L. (2006). Social status gates social attention in monkeys. Current Biology, 16, R119–R120. pdf Deaner, R. O., Khera, A. V., & Platt, M. L. (2005). Monkeys pay per view: Adaptive valuation of social images by rhesus macaques. Current Biology, 15, 543–548. pdf Nunn, C. L., & Deaner, R. O. (2004). Patterns of participation and free riding in territorial conflicts among   ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 57, 50–61. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Platt, M. L. (2003). Reflexive social attention in monkeys and humans. Current Biology, 13, 1609–1613. pdf van Schaik, C. P., & Deaner, R. O. (2003). Life history and cognitive evolution in primates. In F. B. M. de Waal & P. L. Tyack (Eds.), Animal social complexity (pp. 5–25). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pdf Deaner, R. O., Barton, R. A., & van Schaik, C. P. (2002). Primate brains and life history: Renewing the connection. In P. M. Kappeler & M. A. Pereira (Eds.), Primate life histories and socioecology (pp. 233–265). University of Chicago Press. pdf Guzeldere, G., Nahmias, E., & Deaner, R. O. (2002). Darwin’s continuum and the building blocks of deception. In M. Beckoff, A. Allen, & G. M. Burghardt (Eds.), The cognitive animal: Empirical and theoretical perspectives on animal cognition (pp. 353–362). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pdf Johnson, V. E., Deaner, R. O., & van Schaik, C. P. (2002). Bayesian analysis of rank data with application to primate intelligence   experiments. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 8–17. pdf Deaner, R. O., & van Schaik, C. P. (2001). Flaws in evolutionary theory and interpretation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 282–283. pdf Deaner, Robert O., Nunn, C. L., & van Schaik, C. P. (2000). Comparative tests of primate cognition: Different scaling methods   produce different results. Brain Behavior and Evolution, 55, 44–52. pdf van Schaik, C. P., Deaner, R. O., & Merrill, M. Y. (1999). The conditions for tool use in primates: Implications for the evolution  of material culture. Journal of Human Evolution, 36, 719–741. pdf Deaner, R. O., & Nunn, C. L. (1999). How quickly do brains catch up with bodies? A comparative method for detecting evolutionary lag. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 266, 687–694. pdf Badraun, J. C., Mootnick, A. R., Deaner, R. O., Agoramoorthy, G., & McNeese, K. M. (1998). Hand modulation of vocalization in siamangs. International Zoo Yearbook, 36, 84–89. pdf