Richerson, Peter J.

Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2004) · University of Chicago Press eBooks

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 2,793

The evolution of altruistic punishment

Boyd, R., Gintis, H., Bowles, S., & Richerson, P. J. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 1,748

Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups

Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (1992) · Ethology and Sociobiology

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 1,482

The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J., & Henrich, J. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionChild and Animal Learning Development

Cited by 1,303

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (2005)

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 1,197

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: a sketch of the evidence.

Richerson, P., Baldini, R., Bell, A. V., Demps, K., Frost, K., Hillis, V., Mathew, S., Newton, E. K., Naar, N., Newson, L., et al. (2016) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 639

Group beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population.

BOYD, R., & RICHERSON, P. J. (2002) · Journal of Theoretical Biology

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 455

The evolution of indirect reciprocity

Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (1989) · Social Networks

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 398

Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

Richerson, P. J., Boyd, R., & Henrich, J. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionForensic and Genetic Research

Cited by 393

Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution

Henrich, J., Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (2008) · Human Nature

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 360

Conformists and Mavericks: The Empirics of Frequency-Dependent Cultural Transmission

EFFERSON, C., LALIVE, R., RICHERSON, P., MCELREATH, R., & LUBELL, M. (2008) · Evolution and Human Behavior

Language and cultural evolutionExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 336

Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies

McElreath, R., Bell, A. V., Efferson, C., Lubell, M., Richerson, P. J., & Waring, T. (2008) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Cited by 283

Complex societies: The evolutionary origins of a crude superorganism

Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (1999) · Human Nature

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 227

The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality

Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (1998) · Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare

Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Cited by 187

Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems

Richerson, P., & Henrich, J. (2012) · Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

Language and cultural evolutionEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Cited by 131

Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin’s Descent of Man

Richerson, P. J., Gavrilets, S., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2021) · Science

Language and cultural evolutionPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Cited by 69