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Robert Boyd, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 
Area:
Biological Anthropology
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/boyd/
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2024 Lenfesty H, Mathew S, Fikes T, Ross CT, Boyd R. Third-party arbitration and forgiving strategies increase cooperation when perception errors are common. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 291: 20240861. PMID 39013425 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0861  0.67
2023 Yan M, Mathew S, Boyd R. "Doing what others do" does not stabilize continuous norms. Pnas Nexus. 2: pgad054. PMID 36970180 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad054  0.737
2021 Boyd R, Mathew S. Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 33398142 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-01008-1  0.679
2020 Derex M, Boyd R. Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e162. PMID 32773001 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X20000266  0.346
2020 Miu E, Boyd R, Richerson PJ, Morgan TJH. A theory limited in scope and evidence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e171. PMID 32772971 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X20000035  0.393
2020 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. 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. PMID 32475331 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0498  0.45
2019 Kline MA, Gervais MM, Moya C, Boyd RT. Irrelevant-action imitation is short-term and contextual: Evidence from two under-studied populations. Developmental Science. e12903. PMID 31505090 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12903  0.776
2019 Derex M, Bonnefon JF, Boyd R, Mesoudi A. Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 30936426 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-019-0567-9  0.381
2018 Derex M, Boyd R. Social information can potentiate understanding despite inhibiting cognitive effort. Scientific Reports. 8: 9980. PMID 29967356 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-28306-Z  0.368
2018 Derex M, Perreault C, Boyd R. Divide and conquer: intermediate levels of population fragmentation maximize cultural accumulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 373. PMID 29440527 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2017.0062  0.432
2017 Hochberg ME, Marquet PA, Boyd R, Wagner A. Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 372. PMID 29061887 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2016.0414  0.377
2017 Boyd R. The Evolution of Human Uniqueness. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 19: E97. PMID 28065214 DOI: 10.1017/Sjp.2016.98  0.38
2016 Henrich J, Boyd R, Derex M, Kline MA, Mesoudi A, Muthukrishna M, Powell AT, Shennan SJ, Thomas MG. Understanding cumulative cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27791123 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1610005113  0.764
2016 Henrich J, Boyd R. How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e40. PMID 27561383 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000138  0.739
2016 Derex M, Boyd R. Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 26929364 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1518798113  0.411
2016 Schonmann RH, Boyd R. A simple rule for the evolution of contingent cooperation in large groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 371. PMID 26729938 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2015.0099  0.405
2016 Moya MC, Boyd R. The Evolution and Development of Inferential Reasoning about Ethnic Markers: Comparisons between Urban United States and Rural Highland Peru Current Anthropology. 57: 131-144. DOI: 10.1086/685939  0.373
2016 Henrich J, Boyd R. How evolved psychological mechanisms empower cultural group selection Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e40. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000138  0.723
2015 Henrich J, Chudek M, Boyd R. The Big Man Mechanism: how prestige fosters cooperation and creates prosocial leaders. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370. PMID 26503686 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2015.0013  0.758
2015 Moya C, Boyd R, Henrich J. 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. PMID 26417672 DOI: 10.1111/Tops.12163  0.796
2015 Derex M, Boyd R. The foundations of the human cultural niche. Nature Communications. 6: 8398. PMID 26400015 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms9398  0.399
2015 Moya C, Boyd R. Different selection pressures give rise to distinct ethnic phenomena : a functionalist framework with illustrations from the Peruvian Altiplano. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 26: 1-27. PMID 25731969 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-015-9224-9  0.797
2015 Boyd R, Mathew S. Third-party monitoring and sanctions aid the evolution of language Evolution and Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2015.06.002  0.7
2014 Boyd R, Schonmann RH, Vicente R. Hunter-Gatherer population structure and the evolution of contingent cooperation Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 219-227. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.02.002  0.427
2014 Mathew S, Boyd R. The cost of cowardice: Punitive sentiments towards free riders in turkana raids Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 58-64. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2013.10.001  0.732
2013 Kline MA, Boyd R, Henrich J. Teaching and the life history of cultural transmission in Fijian villages. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 24: 351-74. PMID 24096923 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-013-9180-1  0.793
2012 Henrich J, Boyd R, McElreath R, Gurven M, Richerson PJ, Ensminger J, Alvard M, Barr A, Barrett HC, Bolyanatz A, Camerer CF, Cardenas JC, Fehr E, Gintis HM, Gil-White F, et al. Reply to van Hoorn: Converging lines of evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: E1678. PMID 22919709 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1204165109  0.796
2012 Bowles S, Boyd R, Mathew S, Richerson PJ. The punishment that sustains cooperation is often coordinated and costly Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35: 20-21. PMID 22289309 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1100118X  0.726
2012 Henrich J, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. The puzzle of monogamous marriage Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 367: 657-669. PMID 22271782 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2011.0290  0.707
2012 Henrich J, Boyd R, McElreath R, Gurven M, Richerson PJ, Ensminger J, Alvard M, Barr A, Barrett C, Bolyanatz A, Camerer CF, Cardenas JC, Fehr E, Gintis HM, Gil-White F, et al. Culture does account for variation in game behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: E32-3; author reply . PMID 22219355 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1118607109  0.783
2012 Boyd R. Una teoría darwinista de la coevolución gen-cultura Empiria: Revista De Metodología De Ciencias Sociales. 19-40. DOI: 10.5944/Empiria.23.2012.769  0.423
2012 Gintis H, Bowles S, Boyd R, Fehr E. Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00157-5  0.404
2012 Boyd R. Cultural evolution comes of age Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 27: 419. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2012.05.004  0.506
2012 Perreault C, Moya C, Boyd R. A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning Evolution and Human Behavior. 33: 449-459. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2011.12.007  0.783
2011 Boyd R, Richerson PJ, Henrich J. The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 10918-10925. PMID 21690340 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1100290108  0.718
2011 Mathew S, Boyd R. Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 11375-80. PMID 21670285 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1105604108  0.735
2011 Boyd R, Richerson PJ, Henrich J. Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 431-444. PMID 21423337 DOI: 10.1007/S00265-010-1100-3  0.75
2011 Rendell L, Boyd R, Enquist M, Feldman MW, Fogarty L, Laland KN. How copying affects the amount, evenness and persistence of cultural knowledge: insights from the social learning strategies tournament. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 366: 1118-28. PMID 21357234 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0376  0.406
2011 Mathew S, Boyd R. Reply to Baumard and Liénard: Mechanistic accounts need to specify why reputation systems yield cooperative outcomes on observed scales Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: E754. DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1113085108  0.693
2011 Boyd R, Richerson PJ, Henrich J. Rapid cultural adaptation can facilitate the evolution of large-scale cooperation Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 431-444. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-010-1100-3  0.69
2010 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selection Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365: 3787-3795. PMID 21041204 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0046  0.437
2010 Boyd R, Gintis H, Bowles S. Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare. Science (New York, N.Y.). 328: 617-20. PMID 20431013 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1183665  0.368
2010 Kline MA, Boyd R. Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 277: 2559-64. PMID 20392733 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.0452  0.713
2010 Rendell L, Boyd R, Cownden D, Enquist M, Eriksson K, Feldman MW, Fogarty L, Ghirlanda S, Lillicrap T, Laland KN. Why copy others? Insights from the social learning strategies tournament. Science (New York, N.Y.). 328: 208-13. PMID 20378813 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1184719  0.343
2010 Boyd R. Primed for Reading Plos Biology. 8: e1000424. DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pbio.1000424  0.355
2009 Richerson PJ, Boyd R, Bettinger RL. Cultural innovations and demographic change Human Biology. 81: 211-235. PMID 19943744 DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0306  0.344
2009 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Culture and the evolution of human cooperation Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 364: 3281-3288. PMID 19805434 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2009.0134  0.488
2009 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Voting with your feet: Payoff biased migration and the evolution of group beneficial behavior Journal of Theoretical Biology. 257: 331-339. PMID 19135062 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jtbi.2008.12.007  0.427
2009 Mathew S, Boyd R. When does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276: 1167-1174. PMID 19129099 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.1623  0.725
2009 Boyd R. Does an evolutionary perspective help understand environmental degradation? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24: 71-72. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2008.10.003  0.366
2008 Henrich J, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Five Misunderstandings About Cultural Evolution. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 19: 119-37. PMID 26181460 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-008-9037-1  0.721
2008 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Being human: Migration: An engine for social change Nature. 456: 877. PMID 19092915 DOI: 10.1038/456877A  0.378
2008 Henrich J, Boyd R. Division of labor, economic specialization, and the evolution of social stratification Current Anthropology. 49: 715-724. DOI: 10.1086/587889  0.742
2008 Henrich J, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Five misunderstandings about cultural evolution Human Nature. 19: 119-137. DOI: 10.1007/s12110-008-9037-1  0.688
2008 Gintis H, Henrich J, Bowles S, Boyd R, Fehr E. Strong reciprocity and the roots of human morality Social Justice Research. 21: 241-253. DOI: 10.1007/S11211-008-0067-Y  0.714
2007 Boyd R, Mathew S. Behavior: A narrow road to cooperation Science. 316: 1858-1859. PMID 17600207 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1144339  0.729
2007 Le S, Boyd R. Evolutionary dynamics of the continuous iterated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 245: 258-67. PMID 17125798 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jtbi.2006.09.016  0.641
2006 Boyd R. The puzzle of human sociality Science. 314: 1555-1556. PMID 17158313 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1136841  0.405
2006 Boyd R. Reciprocity: You have to think different Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 19: 1380-1382. PMID 16910960 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2006.01159.X  0.375
2005 Henrich J, Boyd R, Bowles S, Camerer C, Fehr E, Gintis H, McElreath R, Alvard M, Barr A, Ensminger J, Henrich NS, Hill K, Gil-White F, Gurven M, Marlowe FW, et al. "Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28: 795-815; discussion . PMID 16372952 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05000142  0.805
2005 Fowler JH, Panchanathan K, Boyd R. Human cooperation: Second-order free-riding problem solved? Nature. 437: E8-E9. PMID 16177738 DOI: 10.1038/nature04201  0.712
2005 Henrich J, Boyd R, Bowles S, Camerer CF, Fehr E, Gintis H, McElreath R. Overview and Synthesis Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies. DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.003.0002  0.48
2005 Henrich J, Boyd R, Bowles S, Camerer C, Fehr E, Gintis H, McElreath R, Alvard M, Barr A, Ensminger J, Henrich NS, Hill K, Gil-White F, Gurven M, Marlowe FW, et al. Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28: 838-855. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X05460148  0.799
2004 Panchanathan K, Boyd R. Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature. 432: 499-502. PMID 15565153 DOI: 10.1038/Nature02978  0.752
2003 Panchanathan K, Boyd R. A tale of two defectors: the importance of standing for evolution of indirect reciprocity. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 224: 115-26. PMID 12900209 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00154-1  0.739
2003 Boyd R, Gintis H, Bowles S, Richerson PJ. The evolution of altruistic punishment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100: 3531-3535. PMID 12631700 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0630443100  0.454
2003 McElreath R, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers Current Anthropology. 44: 122-129. DOI: 10.1086/345689  0.61
2002 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Group beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population Journal of Theoretical Biology. 215: 287-296. PMID 12054837 DOI: 10.1006/Jtbi.2001.2515  0.381
2002 Henrich J, Boyd R. On modeling cognition and culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations Journal of Cognition and Culture. 2: 87-112. DOI: 10.1163/156853702320281836  0.732
2001 Henrich J, Boyd R. Why people punish defectors. Weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 208: 79-89. PMID 11162054 DOI: 10.1006/Jtbi.2000.2202  0.735
2001 Richerson PJ, Boyd R, Bettinger RL. Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? A climate change hypothesis American Antiquity. 66: 387-411. DOI: 10.2307/2694241  0.317
2001 Henrich J, Boyd R, Bowles S, Camerer C, Fehr E, Gintis H, McElreath R. In search of Homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies American Economic Review. 91: 73-84. DOI: 10.1257/Aer.91.2.73  0.786
1999 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Complex societies : The evolutionary origins of a crude superorganism. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 10: 253-89. PMID 26196336 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-999-1004-Y  0.347
1998 Henrich J, Boyd R. The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences Evolution and Human Behavior. 19: 215-241. DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(98)00018-X  0.765
1995 Soltis J, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection?: An Empirical Test Current Anthropology. 36: 473-494. DOI: 10.1086/204381  0.301
1995 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Why does culture increase human adaptability? Ethology and Sociobiology. 16: 125-143. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(94)00073-G  0.359
1992 Richersont PJ, Boyd R. Darwinian Models of Culture: Toward Replacing the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy World Futures. 34: 43-57. DOI: 10.1080/02604027.1992.9972293  0.47
1992 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups Ethology and Sociobiology. 13: 171-195. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(92)90032-Y  0.405
1990 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Group selection among alternative evolutionarily stable strategies Journal of Theoretical Biology. 145: 331-342. PMID 2232821 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(05)80113-4  0.395
1989 Boyd R. Mistakes allow evolutionary stability in the repeated prisoner's dilemma game Journal of Theoretical Biology. 136: 47-56. PMID 2779259 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(89)80188-2  0.336
1989 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. The evolution of indirect reciprocity Social Networks. 11: 213-236. DOI: 10.1016/0378-8733(89)90003-8  0.414
1989 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. The role of evolved predispositions in cultural evolution. Or, Human Sociobiology meets Pascal's Wager Ethology and Sociobiology. 10: 195-219. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(89)90019-8  0.487
1988 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups Journal of Theoretical Biology. 132: 337-356. PMID 3226132 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(88)80219-4  0.43
1988 Boyd R. Is the repeated prisoner's dilemma a good model of reciprocal altruism? Ethology and Sociobiology. 9: 211-222. DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(88)90022-2  0.387
1987 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. The Evolution of Ethnic Markers Cultural Anthropology. 2: 65-79. DOI: 10.1525/Can.1987.2.1.02A00070  0.305
1987 Boyd R, Lorberbaum JP. No pure strategy is evolutionarily stable in the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game Nature. 327: 58-59. DOI: 10.1038/327058A0  0.413
1986 Rindos D, Dunnell RC, Goonatilake S, Irons W, Richarson PJ, Boyd R, Rossi I, Simek JF, Wind J. The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism, and Cultural Selectionism [and Comments and Replies] Current Anthropology. 27: 315-332. DOI: 10.1086/203444  0.432
1985 Rindos D, Carneiro RL, Cooper E, Drechsel P, Dunnell RC, Ellen RF, Gullick CJMR, Hackenberg RA, Hartung J, Kunkel JH, Nickerson GS, Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 26: 65-88. DOI: 10.1086/203227  0.439
1984 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Natural Selection and Culture Bioscience. 34: 430-434. DOI: 10.2307/1309632  0.463
1983 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. The cultural transmission of acquired variation: Effects on genetic fitness Journal of Theoretical Biology. 100: 567-596. PMID 6876815 DOI: 10.1016/0022-5193(83)90324-7  0.422
1983 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Why is Culture Adaptive The Quarterly Review of Biology. 58: 209-214. DOI: 10.1086/413217  0.371
1982 Boyd R. Density-dependent mortality and the evolution of social interactions Animal Behaviour. 30: 972-982. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(82)80185-1  0.319
1982 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperative behavior Human Ecology. 10: 325-351. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01531189  0.471
1981 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Models to Study Cultural Transmission Bioscience. 31: 164-164. DOI: 10.2307/1308277  0.379
1980 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Effect of phenotypic variation on kin selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 77: 7506-9. PMID 16592940 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.77.12.7506  0.307
1980 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Sociobiology, culture and economic theory Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 1: 97-121. DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(80)90005-0  0.352
1978 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. A dual inheritance model of the human evolutionary process I: Basic postulates and a simple model Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 1: 127-154. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1750(78)80002-5  0.445
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