Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change (2009)
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Robert L. Bettinger
Human Biology - Volume 81, Numbers 2-3, April-June 2009
Robert Boyd, Roger S. Fouts, Morris Goodman, Lawrence I. Grossman, Deborah L. Gumucio, Mary Lee, ...
ISBN#: 0-87724-032-9 These essays are the result of an interdisciplinary study program organized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and supported by the National Science Foundation under...
Brian Paciotti, Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
Cultural Evolutionary Theory 2 Cultural evolutionary theory, like other evolutionary theories, links individual-level and population or society-level phenomena. It provides numerous bridges between...
Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines. (2008)
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
Darwin believed that his theory of evolution would stand or fall on its ability to account for human behavior. No species could be an exception to his theory without imperiling the whole edifice. The...
Running Headline: Rapid Spread of Group Beneficial Norms (2008)
Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
Group beneficial norms are common in human societies. The persistence of such norms is consistent with evolutionary game theory, but existing models do not provide a plausible explanation for why...
The approximate tubular neighborhood theorem (2008)
Bruce Hughes, In James, Robert Boyd
Skeleta and other pure subsets of manifold stratified spaces are shown to have neighborhoods which are teardrops of stratified approximate fibrations (under dimension and compactness assumptions). In...
Best Practices: Solar Photovoltaic Shaded Parking Canopies, Lot V (2008)
This session will include presentations from winners of the Energy Efficiency Partnership Best Practice Awards competition for projects that demonstrate best practices in Renewable Energy and Student...
Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness (2008)
Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
It is almost 30 years since the sociobiology controversy burst into full bloom. The modern theory of the evolution of animal behavior was born in the mid 1960’s with Bill Hamilton’s seminal...
Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions (2008)
McElreath, Richard, Boyd, Robert, Gigerenzer, Gerd, Glöckner, Andreas, Hammerstein, Peter, Kurzban, Robert, ...
Explicit and Implicit Strategies in Decision Making (2008)
Güth, Werner, Keysers, Christian, Boyd, Robert, Cohen, Jonathan, Merlin, Donald, Johnson, Eric, ...
Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis
Experimental economists and other social scientists have discovered an important form of human behavior that has been inadequately analyzed by behavioral scientists. In public goods, ultimatum, and...
Memes: Universal Acid or a Better Mouse Trap? (2007)
Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
this paper we want to convince you that population thinking, not natural selection, is the key to conceptualizing culture in terms of material causes. This argument is based on three well-established...
Norms and Bounded Rationality (2007)
Robert Boyd, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson, Peter J. Richerson
Anthropologists believe that human behavior is governed by culturally transmitted norms, and that such norms contain accumulated wisdom that allows people to behave sensibly even though they do not...
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization and the Evolution of Social Stratification (2007)
This paper presents a simple mathematical model that shows how economic inequality between social groups can arise and be maintained even when the only adaptive learning processes driving cultural...
Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin, Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, ...
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This...
Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers (2003)
McElreath, Richard, Boyd, Robert;, Richerson, Peter J.
Unlike other primates, human populations are often divided into ethnic groups that have self-ascribed membership and are marked by seemingly arbitrary traits such as distinctive styles of dress or...
Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers (2003)
McElreath, Richard, Boyd, Robert;, Richerson, Peter J.
Unlike other primates, human populations are often divided into ethnic groups that have self-ascribed membership and are marked by seemingly arbitrary traits such as distinctive styles of dress or...
In search of Homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2001)
Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin F., Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, ...
We can summarize our results as follows. First, the canonical model is not supported in any society studied. Second, there is considerably more behavioral variability across groups than had been...
In search of Homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2001)
Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin F., Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, ...
We can summarize our results as follows. First, the canonical model is not supported in any society studied. Second, there is considerably more behavioral variability across groups than had been...
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies (2001)
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, ...
Recent investigations have uncovered large, consistent deviations from the predictions of the textbook representation of Homo economicus (Alvin E. Roth et al., 1991; Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter,...
The Evolution of Human Ultra-sociality (1997)
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
Introduction 1.1 Human sociality in comparative perspective E.O. Wilson (1975) described humans as one of the four pinnacles of social evolution. The other pinnacles are the colonial invertebrates,...
University of California--Davis (1994)
Robert Bettinger, Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson
When explaining human behavior, anthropologists frequently distinguish the things that people do of their own free will from the things they do because they have to. In much of anthropology, and most...
Facsimile of the author's original dissertation. Includes bibliographical references.
Carmen Chorus shoe dance (1942)
Two pictures portray the start of a "shoe dance" that was part of the entertainment at a 1942 dinner dance held at the Hamilton Community House in Two Rivers, Wisconsin by the Carmen Chorus, a Two...
Carmen Chorus singing for Coastguardsmen (1942)
In this photograph taken at the Hamilton Community House in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, members of the Carmen Chorus, most dressed in long evening gowns, stand as a group singing under the direction of...
Conga dance lesson at Carmen Chorus dinner dance (1942)
Byron Meyers of Evanston, Illinois, a Coastguardsman stationed in Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1942, is shown in uniform giving a Conga dance lesson to about a dozen young women in evening gowns. The...
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Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, ...
Experimental behavioral scientists have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in over a hundred experiments from around the world. Prior research...
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, ...
Recent investigations have uncovered large, consistent deviations from the predictions of the textbook representation of Homo Economicus: in addition to their own material payoffs, many experimental...