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Robert T. Boyd
80 works
· latest 2022
· 10 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0003-2657-8022
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Large‐scale cooperation in small‐scale foraging societies
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
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2022
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2 authors
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review
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115
citations
The role of causal knowledge in the evolution of traditional technology
Current Biology
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2021
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3 authors
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64
citations
The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2020
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2 authors
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review
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71
citations
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
Nature Human Behaviour
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2019
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4 authors
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154
citations
Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2018
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3 authors
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124
citations
Cultural Inheritance and Evolutionary Ecology
Routledge eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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chapter
45
citations
Understanding cumulative cultural evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2016
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9 authors
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151
citations
Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2016
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2 authors
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289
citations
Reasoning About Cultural and Genetic Transmission: Developmental and Cross‐Cultural Evidence From Peru, Fiji, and the United States on How People Make Inferences About Trait Transmission
Topics in Cognitive Science
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2015
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3 authors
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50
citations
The foundations of the human cultural niche
Nature Communications
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2015
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2 authors
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96
citations
Hunter-Gatherer Inter-Band Interaction Rates: Implications for Cumulative Culture
PLoS ONE
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2014
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5 authors
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269
citations
The Cultural Evolution of Technology
The MIT Press eBooks
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2013
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3 authors
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chapter
57
citations
The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
The MIT Press eBooks
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2013
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10 authors
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chapter
47
citations
Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages
Human Nature
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2013
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3 authors
136
citations
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning
Evolution and Human Behavior
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2012
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3 authors
98
citations
The puzzle of monogamous marriage
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2012
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3 authors
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review
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355
citations
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2011
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3 authors
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1,302
citations
Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2011
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2 authors
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365
citations
How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2011
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6 authors
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64
citations
Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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2010
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3 authors
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144
citations
Transmission coupling mechanisms: cultural group selection
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2010
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2 authors
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91
citations
Why Possibly Language Evolved
Biolinguistics
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2010
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2 authors
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32
citations
Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2010
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3 authors
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392
citations
Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare
Science
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2010
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3 authors
613
citations
Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2010
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2 authors
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326
citations
Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament
Science
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2010
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10 authors
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812
citations
Culture and the evolution of human cooperation
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2009
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2 authors
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1,037
citations
Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change
Human Biology
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2009
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3 authors
138
citations
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification
Current Anthropology
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2008
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2 authors
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159
citations
Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution
Human Nature
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2008
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3 authors
359
citations
Cultural evolution and the shaping of cultural diversity.
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2007
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3 authors
53
citations
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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2005
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17 authors
1,898
citations
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: Origins, Evidence, and Consequences
The MIT Press eBooks
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2005
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4 authors
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chapter
154
citations
Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare
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2005
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2 authors
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chapter
601
citations
How Microevolutionary Processes Give Rise to History
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2005
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2 authors
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chapter
32
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Rationality, Imitation, and Tradition
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2005
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2 authors
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chapter
26
citations
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem
Nature
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2004
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2 authors
860
citations
Foundations of Human Sociality
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2004
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6 authors
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book
1,408
citations
Not By Genes Alone
University of Chicago Press eBooks
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2004
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2 authors
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book
2,793
citations
The cultural and genetic evolution of human cooperation
IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis)
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2003
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9 authors
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chapter
36
citations
A tale of two defectors: the importance of standing for evolution of indirect reciprocity
Journal of Theoretical Biology
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2003
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2 authors
387
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In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2003
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3 authors
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preprint
83
citations
Explaining altruistic behavior in humans
Evolution and Human Behavior
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2003
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4 authors
1,037
citations
The evolution of altruistic punishment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2003
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4 authors
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1,748
citations
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers
Current Anthropology
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2003
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3 authors
537
citations
Group Beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a Structured Population
Journal of Theoretical Biology
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2002
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2 authors
455
citations
On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations
Journal of Cognition and Culture
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2002
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2 authors
301
citations
The Evolution of Norms: An Anthropological View
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2001
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2 authors
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preprint
59
citations
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies
American Economic Review
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2001
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7 authors
2,615
citations
Memes: Universal acid or a better mousetrap?
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2001
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2 authors
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chapter
73
citations
Why People Punish Defectors
Journal of Theoretical Biology
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2001
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2 authors
803
citations
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2001
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7 authors
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preprint
183
citations
In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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2001
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7 authors
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preprint
88
citations
Institutional Evolution in the Holocene: The Rise of Complex Societies
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2001
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2 authors
54
citations
What is the role of culture in bounded rationality
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
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2001
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7 authors
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other
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30
citations
Meme theory oversimplifies how culture changes.
PubMed
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2000
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2 authors
29
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Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition
The MIT Press eBooks
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2000
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2 authors
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chapter
117
citations
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
Western Historical Quarterly
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2000
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2 authors
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other
318
citations
Built for Speed: Pleistocene Climate Variation and the Origin of Human Culture
Perspectives in ethology
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2000
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2 authors
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chapter
47
citations
Complex societies
Human Nature
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1999
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2 authors
227
citations