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Robert Boyd, Ph.D.

Affiliations:

Anthropology

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Area:

Biological Anthropology

Website:

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/boyd/

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Parents

Kenneth E.F. Watt	grad student	1975	UC Davis
Michael J. Wade	post-doc	1981-1982	Chicago

Children

Joseph Henrich	grad student	1993-1999	UCLA
Natalie Jill Smith	grad student	2001	UCLA (Anthropology Tree)
Richard McElreath	grad student	1995-2001	UCLA (Anthropology Tree)
Francisco J. Gil-White	grad student	2002	UCLA
Aimee M. Plourde	grad student	2006	UCLA
Joseph V. Ferraro	grad student	2007	UCLA
Stephen Le	grad student	2010	UCLA
Karthik Panchanathan	grad student	2010	UCLA
Sarah G. Mathew	grad student	2011	UCLA
Cristina M. Moya	grad student	2012	UCLA
Michelle A. Kline	grad student	2013	UCLA

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Yan M, Mathew S, Boyd R. (2023) "Doing what others do" does not stabilize continuous norms. Pnas Nexus. 2: pgad054
Boyd R, Mathew S. (2021) Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors. Nature Human Behaviour
Derex M, Boyd R. (2020) Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e162
Miu E, Boyd R, Richerson PJ, et al. (2020) A theory limited in scope and evidence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e171
Richerson PJ, Boyd R. (2020) The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190498
Kline MA, Gervais MM, Moya C, et al. (2019) Irrelevant-action imitation is short-term and contextual: Evidence from two under-studied populations. Developmental Science. e12903
Derex M, Bonnefon JF, Boyd R, et al. (2019) Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour
Derex M, Boyd R. (2018) Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort. Scientific Reports. 8: 9980
Derex M, Perreault C, Boyd R. (2018) Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 373
Hochberg ME, Marquet PA, Boyd R, et al. (2017) Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 372

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