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"Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

scientific article published in December 2005

Behavior as a key component of integrative biology in a human-altered world.

scientific article published on 12 October 2010

Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies

scientific article

Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds

scientific article

Cooperation due to cultural norms, not individual reputation ⬇️

scientific article published on June 9, 2012

Correction to: 'Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model'

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Costly punishment across human societies

scientific article

Culture does account for variation in game behavior

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality

scholarly article

Different populations of blacklegged tick nymphs exhibit differences in questing behavior that have implications for human lyme disease risk

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Disease dynamics and costly punishment can foster socially imposed monogamy

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2016)

Dual-inheritance theory: the evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution

scientific article (publication date: 5 April 2007)

Egalitarian motives in humans

scientific article

Evolution of animal personalities

scientific article

Foraging Efficiency and the Importance of Knowledge in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for Childhood Evolution

scientific article published on 12 September 2022

Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Hidden Markov Models Reveal Tactical Adjustment of Temporally Clustered Courtship Displays in Response to the Behaviors of a Robotic Female

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population demonstrates diversity in human reproductive strategies

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

article

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Increased costs of cooperation help cooperators in the long run

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Interethnic Interaction, Strategic Bargaining Power, and the Dynamics of Cultural Norms : A Field Study in an Amazonian Population

scientific article

Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies

scientific article published on October 2009

Machine behaviour

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment.

scientific article

Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods.

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Neural basis of egalitarian behavior

scientific article published on 9 April 2012

Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies.

scientific article

Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate

scientific article published in June 2017

Payoff-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate

article

Physical Controls on the Distribution of the Submersed Aquatic Weed Egeria densa in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California and Implications for Habitat Restoration

article

Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Rapid environmental change in games: complications and curiosities

Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery ⬇️

scientific article

Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence

scientific article published in June 2012

Reputation and the evolution of conflict

scientific article published in February 2003

Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers

article

Sizing up human brain evolution

scientific article published in Nature

Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology

scientific article published on 23 January 2023

Sustainability of minority culture when inter-ethnic interaction is profitable

article

The Behavioral Logic of Collective Action: Partisans Cooperate and Punish More Than Nonpartisans

The Evolution Of Covert Signaling

The Evolution of Covert Signaling.

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

The coevolution of social learning and sensitivity to changing environments

The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior

The evolution of bequeathal in stable habitats

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

The evolution of cultural evolution

article published in 2003

The importance of life history and population regulation for the evolution of social learning

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

The natural selection of bad science ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: September 2016)

The only thing that can stop bad causal inference is good causal inference

scientific article published in 2022

The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment

Understanding ‘it depends’ in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interactions

scientific article published in March 2023

Using multilevel models to estimate variation in foraging returns. Effects of failure rate, harvest size, age, and individual heterogeneity.

scientific article published in March 2014

Variants at serotonin transporter and 2A receptor genes predict cooperative behavior differentially according to presence of punishment

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

When are two tools better than one? Mortars, millingslabs, and the California acorn economy

scholarly article by Nathan E. Stevens published in March 2015

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