Robert Boyd

Books

R. Boyd, in press, R. A Different Kind of Animal, Princeton University Press, publication date October, 2017 McElreath and R. Boyd, 2007. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A guide for the perplexed, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

P. J . Richerson and R. Boyd, 2005, Not by Genes Alone: How culture transformed human evolution, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. (Translated into Korean and Italian)

R. Boyd, and P. J. Richerson, 2005. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures, Oxford University Press, New York

J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, & H. Gintis. 2004. The Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies, Oxford University Press, New York

H. Gintis, S. Bowles, E. Fehr, & R. Boyd 2004. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The foundations of cooperation in economic life, MIT Press Cambridge

R. Boyd and J. B. Silk, 1997, How Humans Evolved, W. W. Norton, Co. NY. (8th edition was published in September 2017)

Recent Papers

M. Derex and R. Boyd, Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 113, 2982-2987, 2016.

R.H. Schonmann and R. Boyd, A simple rule for the evolution of contingent cooperation in large groups, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), 317,  DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0099, 2016 

J. Henrich, M. Chudek and R. Boyd, The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0013, 2015. (

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C. Moya and  R. Boyd, Different selection pressures give rise to distinct ethnic phenomena: A functionalist framework with illustrations from the Peruvian Altiplano. Human Nature, 26(1). doi:10.1007/s12110-015-9224-9, 2015. 

M. Derex and R. Boyd, The foundations of the human cultural niche, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms9398, 2015 

C. Moya, R. Boyd, and J. Henrich. 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, 7, 1-16, 2015. 

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R. Boyd and S. Mathew. Third-party monitoring and sanctions aid the evolution of language, Evolution and Human Behavior, 36, 475-479, 2015.

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R. Boyd, R. H. Schonmann and R. Vicente, Hunter–Gatherer population structure and the evolution of contingent cooperation, Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 219–227, 2014.

K. Hill, B. M. Wood, J. Baggio, A. M. Hurtado, R. Boyd, Hunter-Gatherer Inter-Band Interaction Rates: Implications for Cumulative Culture, PLoS One, 9, 1-9, 2014.

S. Mathew and R. Boyd, The cost of cowardice. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 58–64. 2014 

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S. Mathew, R. Boyd, M. van Veelen. Human cooperation among kin and close associates may require enforcement of norms by third parties. In: Cultural Evolution, ed. P. J. Richerson and M. Christiansen, Strüngmann Forum Report 12,  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013   

R. Boyd, P. J. Richerson and J. Henrich, The cultural evolution of technology, facts and theories, Cultural Evolution, Society, Technology, Science and Religion, M. Christiansen and P.J. Richerson, eds., MIT Press, 119–142, 2013 

M. Kline, R. Boyd, and J. Henrich, Teaching and the life history of cultural transmission in Fijian villages, Human Nature, 24, 351–374, 2013.

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C. Perreault, C. Moya, and R. Boyd. A Baysian approach to the evolution of social learning. Evolution and Human Behavior, Proofs posted online April 2012 .

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J. Henrich, R. Boyd, and P. J. Richerson. The puzzle of monogamous marriage, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), 367, 657–669, 2012 ; Supplementary material .

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R. Boyd, P. J. Richerson, and J. Henrich. The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 108: 10918–10925, 2011 .