Robert T Boyd

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Robert T Boyd is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University, Arizona State University

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Robert T Boyd's Degrees

PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Physics Stanford University

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Published Works

Culture and the Evolutionary Process (1988) (2619)
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small- Scale Societies (2001) (2304)
Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution. (2004) (1655)
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005) (1574)
The evolution of altruistic punishment (2003) (1530)
Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (2004) (1411)
Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups (1992) (1280)
The evolution of indirect reciprocity (1989) (1271)
The evolution of conformist transmission and the emergence of between-group differences. (1998) (1017)
Explaining altruistic behavior in humans (2003) (979)
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (2011) (867)
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem (2004) (750)
Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. (2001) (730)
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (2005) (673)
Culture and the evolution of human cooperation (2009) (635)
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (2006) (579)
Why Culture is Common, but Cultural Evolution is Rare (1996) (573)
Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare (2010) (550)
Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatory during the Holocene? A Climate Change Hypothesis (2001) (522)
Not by Genes Alone (2004) (504)
No pure strategy is evolutionarily stable in the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game (1987) (473)
Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers (2003) (449)
Group beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population. (2002) (403)
Why does culture increase human adaptability (1995) (378)
Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection?: An Empirical Test (1995) (349)
A tale of two defectors: the importance of standing for evolution of indirect reciprocity. (2003) (348)
Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare (2011) (321)
Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament (2010) (311)
Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania (2010) (279)
Mathematical models of social evolution: A guide for the perplexed (2007) (278)
Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution (2008) (276)
How Humans Evolved (1999) (259)
The puzzle of monogamous marriage (2012) (252)
Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics (2010) (245)
In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2001) (241)
On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations (2002) (232)
Mistakes allow evolutionary stability in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game. (1989) (226)
A dual inheritance model of the human evolutionary process I: Basic postulates and a simple model (1978) (214)
Hunter-Gatherer Inter-Band Interaction Rates: Implications for Cumulative Culture (2014) (204)
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies (2001) (202)
The Evolution of Ethnic Markers (1987) (190)
Cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperative behavior (1982) (188)
Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality (2008) (177)
• AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF SOCIAL LEARNING: THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATON (2013) (172)
Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups (2016) (168)
Cheap talk when interests conflict (2000) (163)
The Co-evolution of Individual Behaviors and Social Institutions (161)
A method for assigning cardinal dominance ranks (1983) (155)
Is the repeated prisoner's dilemma a good model of reciprocal altruism? (1988) (142)
Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change (2009) (141)
The evolution of subjective commitment to groups: A tribal instincts hypothesis. (2001) (135)
Complex societies (1999) (135)
Solving the Puzzle of Human Cooperation (2000) (130)
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: Origins, Evidence, and Consequences. (2005) (123)
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification (2008) (122)
Are Peasants Risk-Averse Decision Makers ? (120)
Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation (2002) (120)
Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation (2010) (117)
Ethnicity : Problem and Focus in Anthropology (2007) (116)
Sociobiology, culture and economic theory☆ (1980) (110)
Voting with your feet: Payoff biased migration and the evolution of group beneficial behavior. (2009) (106)
Understanding cumulative cultural evolution (2016) (105)
Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages (2013) (102)
Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation (2003) (102)
Constraints on the Development of Agriculture (2009) (98)
The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders (2015) (98)
Climate, Culture, and the Evolution of Cognition (2000) (91)
A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning (2012) (89)
Culture, Adaptation, and Innateness (2006) (86)
Transmission coupling mechanisms: cultural group selection (2010) (84)
Are Cultural Phylogenies Possible ? (1997) (84)
The foundations of the human cultural niche (2015) (81)
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (78)
The Evolution of Norms: An Anthropological View (2001) (71)
Institutional Evolution in the Holocene: The Rise of Complex Societies (2001) (68)
The Puzzle of Human Sociality (2006) (65)
Evolutionary dynamics of the continuous iterated prisoner's dilemma. (2007) (65)
Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation (2018) (65)
The transition to agriculture in northwestern China (2007) (65)
How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament (2011) (61)
Memes: Universal Acid or a Better Mouse Trap? (1999) (61)
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology (2018) (61)
Style, Function, and Cultural Evolutionary Processes (1996) (60)
What is the role of culture in bounded rationality (2001) (59)
Evolution on a Restless Planet: Were Environmental Variability and Environmental Change Major Drivers of Human Evolution? (2008) (57)
The role of evolved predispositions in cultural evolution: Or, Human Sociobiology meets Pascal's Wager (1989) (57)
Overview and synthesis (2004) (56)
Built for Speed: Pleistocene Climate Variation and the Origin of Human Culture (2000) (55)
The cost of cowardice: punitive sentiments towards free riders in Turkana raids (2014) (55)
Mathematical models of social evolution (2007) (53)
The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism, and Cultural Selectionism [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (51)
Density-dependent mortality and the evolution of social interactions (1982) (51)
The Cultural Evolution of Technology Facts and Theories (2012) (50)
When does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation? (2009) (50)
A Narrow Road to Cooperation (2007) (50)
Norms and Bounded Rationality (49)
Group Report: The Cultural and genetic Evolution of Human Cooperation (2003) (48)
Homage to Malthus, Ricardo, and Boserup: Toward a General Theory of Population, Economic Growth, Environmental Deterioration, Wealth, and Poverty (1998) (46)
Gene–Culture Coevolution and the Evolution of Social Institutions (2008) (45)
Simple models of complex phenomena: The case of cultural evolution (1987) (43)
The Cultural Evolution of Technology (2013) (41)
12 – Cooperation, Competition, and Mate Choice in Matrilineal Macaque Groups (1983) (40)
The cultural evolution of technology and science (2013) (39)
Why Possibly Language Evolved (2010) (34)
Cultural evolution and the shaping of cultural diversity. (2007) (34)
Tragedy revisited (2018) (33)
Culture does account for variation in game behavior (2012) (33)
Why is Culture Adaptive? (1983) (32)
11. Rethinking Paleoanthropology: A World Queerer Than We Supposed (2013) (32)
Culture is Part of Human Biology Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences Badly (2001) (32)
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 (2015) (30)
Natural Selection and Culture (1984) (29)
Different Selection Pressures Give Rise to Distinct Ethnic Phenomena (2015) (29)
The search for an alternative to the sociobiological hypothesis (1981) (28)
Being human: Migration: An engine for social change (2008) (28)
Human Cooperation among Kin and Close Associates May Require Enforcement of Norms by Third Parties (2013) (27)
Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies (2017) (25)
Selfishness and Fairness in Economic and Evolutionary Perspective : An Experimental Economic Study in Papua New Guinea (2011) (24)
The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture (2020) (24)
From Grooming to Giving Blood: The Origins of Human Altruism (2010) (22)
Studying extant species to model our past. (2010) (21)
Hunter–Gatherer population structure and the evolution of contingent cooperation (2014) (20)
Cultural Adaptation and Maladaptation: Of Kayaks and Commissars. (2007) (19)
Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences (2005) (19)
A simple rule for the evolution of contingent cooperation in large groups (2016) (19)
Reciprocity: you have to think different (2006) (19)
Homo reciprocans: A Research Initiative on the Origins, Dimensions, and Policy Implications of Recip (1997) (18)
Built for speed, not for comfort (2001) (18)
Third-party monitoring and sanctions aid the evolution of language (2015) (16)
Cultural Selection and Genetic Diversity in Humans (2002) (16)
Response to our critics (2008) (14)
Cultural inheritance and evolutionary ecology (2017) (12)
The punishment that sustains cooperation is often coordinated and costly (2012) (12)
The role of causal knowledge in the evolution of traditional technology (2021) (11)
Large‐scale cooperation in small‐scale foraging societies (2021) (11)
Evolution. The puzzle of human sociality. (2006) (11)
The Evolution and Development of Inferential Reasoning about Ethnic Markers (2016) (11)
How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection (2016) (10)
The Evolution of Free Enterprise Values (2006) (10)
The Darwinian Theory of Human Cultural Evolution and Gene-Culture Coevolution (2010) (9)
Appendix to Understanding Cumulative Cultural Evolution: A Reply to Vaesen, Collard, Et Al. (2016) (9)
The role of attraction in cultural evolution ( Reply to (2006) (7)
Cultural Evolution : Accomplishments and Future Prospects (2008) (7)
Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort (2018) (7)
Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors (2021) (7)
Life in the fast lane: rapid cultural change and the human evolutionary process (1996) (6)
Learning Strategies Tournament Why Copy Others ? Insights from the Social (6)
Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Emergence of Altruistic Behavior in Humans (2008) (5)
Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence (2012) (5)
Cultural evolutionary theory: A synthetic theory for fragmented disciplines (2006) (5)
Human cooperation: Second-order free-riding problem solved? (reply) (2005) (4)
Behavior. A narrow road to cooperation. (2007) (4)
Behavioral convergence in humans and animals (2021) (4)
Irrelevant-action imitation is short-term and contextual: Evidence from two under-studied populations. (2020) (4)
Introduction and Guide to the Volume (2005) (4)
Darwinian Models of Culture: Toward Replacing the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy (1992) (3)
The Taylor-Frank method cannot be applied to some biologically important, continuous tness functions (2012) (3)
Risk and reciprocity: Hunter-gatherer socioecology and the problem of collective action (2019) (3)
The evolution of cooperation under local regulation and non-additive gene action: building on Hamilton’s ideas (2014) (2)
cross-cultural experiments (2010) (2)
Invasion, polymorphic equilibria and fixation of a mutant social allele in group structured populations (2012) (2)
Rethinking the Origins of Agriculture Constraints on the Development of Agriculture by (2009) (2)
Equilibriwm selection and the evolution of norms (2013) (2)
Tournament Why Copy Others ? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies (2)
The Evolution of Human Uniqueness (2017) (2)
Models to Study Cultural Transmission (1981) (1)
How to make a kin selection model when marginal fitness is non-linear? (2014) (1)
A theory limited in scope and evidence (2020) (1)
The death of Fritz the cat (1997) (1)
Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far (2020) (1)
Reasoning About Cultural and Genetic Transmission: (2015) (1)
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology (2019) (1)
Of Biocultural Mathematics and Mind (2006) (1)
Response to J. Rushen (1984) (1)
Culture, Biology and the Evolution of Variation Between Human Groups (2019) (0)
On the Crest of a Wave (1991) (0)
Beyond selfish and selfless Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, H. Gintis, (2008) (0)
Basil Wolman (2010) (0)
How humans evolved / Robert Boyd; Joan B. Silk (2003) (0)
Not by Brains Alone (2019) (0)
Lecture 1 Not by brains alone : The vital role of culture in human adaptation Are humans unique ? (2016) (0)
Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort (2018) (0)
The earliest hominoids (1997) (0)
How Copying Affects the Amount, Evenness and Persistence of Cultural Knowledge (2011) (0)
Gaussian Random Number Generator (RNG) (2018) (0)
Selection among Groups (2007) (0)
Hot 'n' heavy! (2009) (0)
HOW DO NORMS SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE CANNOT SOLVE ON THEIR OWN ? (0)
A darwinian theory of gene-culture coevolution (2012) (0)
Editor's note (2004) (0)
Relatedness and the evolution of cooperative institutions (2019) (0)
Strawson on induction (1998) (0)
Optimal foraging theory. Review of Foraging Theory, by David W. Stephens and John R. Krebs. Princeton Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, John R. Krebs and Timothy Clutton‐Brock, eds. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1986, 247 pp, $40.00, cloth; $14.50, paper (1989) (0)
Inductive Reasoning and Writing. (2003) (0)
Cultural adaptation , norms , and the evolution of human cooperation (2012) (0)
Altruism and Inclusive Fitness (2007) (0)
Comment by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd: Evolutionary models of culture and the ‘meaning’ sense of information: Who is confused about what? (1983) (0)
Evolution of Social Learning with Payoff and Content Bias (2021) (0)
Happy hippy comix (1990) (0)
One con conflict ’ The puzzle of monogamous marriage (2012) (0)
Cultural evolution comes of age (2012) (0)
TEACHING AND THE LIF E HISTORY OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN FIJI AN VILLAGES (2012) (0)
Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions (1998) (0)
Inductive Reasoning and Rhetoric (1998) (0)
Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains (2010) (0)
Reply to Baumard and Liénard: Mechanistic accounts need to specify why reputation systems yield cooperative outcomes on observed scales (2011) (0)
Does an evolutionary perspective help understand environmental degradation (2009) (0)
Editors' Acknowledgments (2008) (0)
Editorial (2002) (0)
Beyond Kith and Kin Culture and the Scale of Human Cooperation (2019) (0)
“Doing what others do” does not stabilize continuous norms (2023) (0)
The Theoretician's Laboratory (2007) (0)
Systems Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological (2010) (0)
DARWINIAN THEORY AND HUMAN CULTURE (2011) (0)
Different Selection Pressures Give Rise to Distinct Ethnic Phenomena (2015) (0)
Divine Action / Human Replication : Applied Justice (2013) (0)
REA S ONIN G A B OUT C UL T URA L A ND GENE TIC T RA NS MIS S I ON (2013) (0)
Teaching and the Life History of Cultural Transmission in Fijian Villages (2013) (0)
Harold Fox 1931–2012 (2012) (0)
Facts and Theories (2013) (0)
Supplementary material from "Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation" (2018) (0)
11 The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science (2013) (0)
Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors (2021) (0)
Cross-cultural Ultimatum Game Research Group (2004) (0)

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