Peter Richerson: UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and PolicyReligion is often held to play a large, even dominant, role in supporting human cooperation. Much variation in propensities to cooperate […]
Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human DevelopmentIn human and nonhuman primates, caregiver attachment is a motivational/ behavioral system that promotes the maintenance of proximity between a caregiver […]
Rob Boyd: UCLA Department of AnthropologyRecent discussions of human cooperation assume that the theory reciprocal altruism provides an established explanation for human cooperation, and that therefore, alternative explanations invoking cultural […]
Wendy Saltzman: UC Riverside Department of BiologyCommon marmosets are cooperatively breeding monkeys that exhibit high female reproductive skew: typically only a single, dominant female breeds successfully in each social group. […]
Alex Mesoudi: University of British Columbia W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied EthicsA Darwinian theory of cultural evolution holds that the same fundamental principles that govern biological change – variation, […]
Pascal Boyer: Washington University Department of PsychologyRitualized behavior is found in children's typical development, as well as in the pathology of OCD and in cultural ceremonies. Pierrre Lienard and I […]
Karl Sigmund: University of Vienna Department of MathematicsA considerable body of theoretical and empirical evidence underlines the important role of punishment in stabilising high contributions to joint enterprises. But how […]
Susan Carey: Harvard Department of PsychologyI make two non-controversial assumptions about human conceptual understanding. First, it is built from a shared set of developmental primitives--the representational resources bequeathed to all […]
Bernard Comrie: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics & UC Santa Barbara Department of LinguisticsAn understanding of the transmission of language across time requires reference to both […]
Brenda Bowser: Cal State Fullerton Department of AnthropologyThis paper examines the transmission of stylistic behavior in the community of Conambo. The people of Conambo are self-sufficient horticultural foragers who are […]
