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Christopher Boehm

Anthropology

#144

World Rank

#225

Historical Rank

#81

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#99

World Rank

#127

Historical Rank

#60

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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Boehm was an American cultural anthropologist with a subspecialty in primatology, who researched conflict resolution, altruism, the evolution of morality, and feuding and warfare. He was also the Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at University of Southern California, a multi-media interactive database focusing on the social and moral behavior of world hunter gatherers. Boehm died on November 23, 2021, at the age of 90.

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Christopher Boehm's Published Works

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Published Works

Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (568)
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (2012) (423)
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies] (1991) (398)
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1999) (294)
Fission-Fusion Dynamics : New Research Frameworks. Commentaries (2008) (234)
The Co-evolution of Individual Behaviors and Social Institutions (161)
Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies (1986) (151)
Conflict and the evolution of social control. (2000) (134)
Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies (1984) (132)
Rational Preselection from Hamadryas to Homo Sapiens: The Place of Decisions in Adaptive Process (1978) (105)
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (105)
On Human Egalitarianism: An Evolutionary Product of Machiavellian Status Escalation? (1994) (103)
Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (93)
Hierarchy in the Forest. The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1999. (1999) (92)
Purposive Social Selection and the Evolution of Human Altruism (2008) (78)
Ancestral Hierarchy and Conflict (2012) (71)
Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature (1989) (69)
The evolutionary development of morality as an effect of dominance behavior and conflict interference (1982) (53)
Uniquely Human? A Reply to Zoon Politikon: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Political Systems (2015) (53)
The emergence of simple and complex power structures through social niche construction. (2010) (52)
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy. (1999) (42)
Retaliatory Violence in Human Prehistory (2011) (38)
A note on scavenging by wild chimpanzees. (1995) (29)
What Makes Humans Economically Distinctive? A Three-Species Evolutionary Comparison and Historical Analysis (2004) (24)
Machiavellian Intelligence II: Egalitarian behaviour and the evolution of political intelligence (1997) (22)
Capital punishment in tribal Montenegro: Implications for law, biology, and theory of social control (1986) (21)
Zoon politikon: The evolutionary origins of human socio-political systems (2019) (20)
Parasitic Selection and Group Selection: A Study of Conflict Interference in Rhesus and Japanese Macaque Monkeys (1981) (19)
The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution Between Groups (2013) (17)
Some problems with altruism in the search for moral universals. (1979) (16)
exposing the moral self in Montenegro: the use of natural definitions to keep ethnography descriptive (1980) (14)
Montenegrin Social Organization and Values: Political Ethnography of a Refuge Area Tribal Adaptation (1983) (14)
The moral consequences of social selection. (2014) (14)
A Fresh Outlook on Cultural Selection (1982) (13)
Execution within the clan as an extreme form of ostracism (1985) (13)
Montenegrin Social Organization and Values (1982) (12)
Costs and benefits in hunter-gatherer punishment (2012) (12)
Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies (2019) (11)
Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (11)
METHODS FOR ISOLATING CHIMPANZEE VOCAL COMMUNICATION (1989) (9)
Biological versus Social Evolution. (1976) (9)
Lower-Level Teleology in Biological Evolution: Decision Behavior and Reproductive Success in Two Species (1991) (8)
The Evolutionary Origins of Human Political Systems by Herbert Gintis , Carel van Schaik (2015) (7)
20. Ancestral Precursors, Social Control, and Social Selection in the Evolution of Morals (2017) (6)
Can Social Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Both Be Ascribed to the Same Causal Forces? (1984) (5)
Vocal Communication of Pan Troglogytes: “Triangulating” to the Origin of Spoken Language (1992) (5)
Collective intentionality: A basic and early component of moral evolution (2018) (4)
Population Politics: The Choices That Shape Our Future. Virginia Abernethy (1996) (3)
Quantifying the study of cultural group selection: Comments on Janet Landa’s paper (2008) (2)
A Short Natural History of Altruism and Healing (2007) (2)
INTERACTIONS OF CULTURE AND NATURAL SELECTION IN THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC (1)
The Evolution of Social Control (2015) (1)
"On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition": Comment. (1976) (1)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour. Robert A. Hinde and Jo Groebel (1993) (0)
to keep ethnography descriptive (2016) (0)
Feuding, Conflict and Banditry In Nineteenth-Century Corsica. STEPHEN WILSON (1989) (0)
Large-Game Hunting and the Evolution of Human Sociality (2017) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Escalating Disputes: Social Participation and Change in the Oaxacan Highlands. Philip C. Parnell (1990) (0)
A Short History of Altruism and Health (2007) (0)
Sociobiology and Conflict: Evolutionary Perspectives on Competition, Cooperation, Violence and Warfare. J. van der Dennen and V. Falger (1992) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Biology of Moral Systems. Richard D. Alexander. (1988) (0)
From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Fantasy (2012) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Human Universals. Donald E. Brown. (1992) (0)
Biological Anthropology: Biology and Freedom: An Essay on the Implications of Human Ethology. S. A. Barnett (1990) (0)
General/Theoretical: Morality as a Biological Phenomenon: The Presuppositions of Sociobiological Research. Gunther Stent, ed (1982) (0)
General/Theoretical: Why They Did Not Starve: Biocultural Adaptation in a South Indian Village. Morgan D. Maclachlan (1984) (0)
Defining the Evolutionary Conscience: Finishing a Job that Darwin Started (2017) (0)
Power plays (2018) (0)
Acknowledgement to Reviewers 2016 (2017) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality. Robin Fox. (1991) (0)
7. Insult and Danger: Anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and Wild Chimpanzees (2011) (0)

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