William H. Durham

William Durham earned a B.S. at Stanford University in 1971, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master's (1973) and PhD (1977). ==Career==

Durham joined Stanford as a faculty member in 1977. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1989–1990) and Stanford's Director of the human biology program (1992–1995). ==Research==

Durham has studied the demography, genetics, and resource management of the San Blas Kuna of Panama, El Salvador and Honduras, and deforestation in Mexico, Central, and South America. Based on his work in West Africa and Latin America, Durham has developed a theory of coevolution which he uses to examine the ways in which the interactions of genetics, the environment, and human culture affect groups within human populations. ==Works==

Durham was Editor of the Annual Review of Anthropology from 1993–2008. His published books include: • • Escasez y sobrevivencia en Centroamérica: orígenes ecológicos de la guerra del fútbol, UCA Editores, 1988, • (reprint 1992, ) • • • • ==Awards==

• 1983, MacArthur Fellows Program • National Science Foundation fellowship • Guggenheim Fellowship • Danforth Foundation fellowship ==References==