Marcus Feldman

About

Marcus Feldman is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. His primary research interests include human genetic and cultural evolution, mathematical biology, demography of China, and population genetics. He is affiliated with Stanford's Bio-X, CEHG, ChEM-H, Hopkins Marine Station, Woods Institute, and Wu Tsai Neuro programs. Contact information includes his office in Bass 234, telephone (650) 725-1867, and email mfeldman@stanford.edu.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Sociology
• Economics
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ecology
• Demography

Selected publications

• Evolution Evolving

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2024-10-08 · 76 citations

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• Cultural evolution of conformity and anticonformity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 61 citations

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  Significance The evolutionary dynamics of cultural variants under conformist- and anticonformist-biased transmission have implications for humans and nonhuman animals. Humans display both conformist and anticonformist biases, and models of conformist-biased transmission have been proposed to explain large-scale human cooperation. Nonhuman animals have been shown to display conformist biases in mating and foraging decisions. Here, we investigate established mathematical models of conformist and a…

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• The Impact of the Anti-Poverty Relocation and Settlement Program on Rural Households’ Well-Being and Ecosystem Dependence: Evidence from Western China

  Society & Natural Resources · 2020 · 47 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  To evaluate the effect of China’s anti-poverty relocation and settlement program (ARSP) on both human well-being and ecosystem conservation, we divide the relationship between household well-being and ecosystem dependence into four modes and examine the impact of ARSP on these modes by using household survey data. It finds that relocated households and those under centralized resettlement, voluntary relocation, and new stage relocation fall closer to the “high well-being, low dependence” mode. H…

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• Adaptive social contact rates induce complex dynamics during epidemics

  PLoS Computational Biology · 2021 · 45 citations

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  Epidemics may pose a significant dilemma for governments and individuals. The personal or public health consequences of inaction may be catastrophic; but the economic consequences of drastic response may likewise be catastrophic. In the face of these trade-offs, governments and individuals must therefore strike a balance between the economic and personal health costs of reducing social contacts and the public health costs of neglecting to do so. As risk of infection increases, potentially infect…

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• The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention

  BioScience · 2020 · 39 citations

  Contemporary humans are living very different lives from those of their ancestors, and some of the changes have had serious consequences for health. Multiple chronic "diseases of civilization," such as cardiovascular problems, cancers, ADHD, and dementias are prevalent, increasing morbidity rates. Stress, including the disruption of traditional sleep patterns by modern lifestyles, plays a prominent role in the etiology of these diseases, including obstructive sleep apnea. Surprisingly, jaw shrin…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03TW005540

  NIH · $117k · 2005

• NIH Grant P01GM028428

  NIH · $26.2M · 2006

• NIH Grant R01GM028016

  NIH · $4.9M · 2012

Frequent coauthors

• Shuzhuo Li

  109 shared

• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  99 shared

• Noah A. Rosenberg

  Stanford University

  65 shared

• J. Hillel

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  53 shared

• Jonathan K. Pritchard

  Stanford University

  40 shared

• Uri Liberman

  Tel Aviv University

  38 shared

• Kevin N. Laland

  University of St Andrews

  37 shared

• Eilon Woolf

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  35 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Biology

  Stanford University

  1977

• B.A., Biology

  University of California, San Diego

  1972

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