Richard McElreath, PhD

Affiliations: 
2002-2015 Anthropology University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 
 2015- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany 
Area:
anthropology, cultural evolution, human evolution
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Parents

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Robert Boyd grad student 1995-2001 UCLA
 (Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.)
Gerd Gigerenzer post-doc 2001-2002 (Neurotree)

Children

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Dominik Deffner grad student
Natalia Fedorova grad student
Ilaria Pretelli grad student 2018-
Paul E. Smaldino grad student 2011 (Neurotree)
Paul E. Smaldino post-doc 2014-2015 UC Davis (Neurotree)

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Peter J. Richerson collaborator 2002-2014 UC Davis (Terrestrial Ecology Tree)
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Brinkmann L, Baumann F, Bonnefon JF, et al. (2023) Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour. 7: 1855-1868
Pretelli I, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Makame Khamis B, et al. (2023) Foraging and the importance of knowledge in Pemba, Tanzania: implications for childhood evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 290: 20231505
Smaldino PE, McElreath R. (2023) Correction to: 'The natural selection of bad science' (2016) by Paul E. Smaldino and Richard McElreath. Royal Society Open Science. 10: rsos231026
Ross CT, Hooper PL, Smith JE, et al. (2023) Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2220124120
Kohrt F, Smaldino PE, McElreath R, et al. (2023) Replication of the natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 221306
Fedorova N, McElreath R, Beheim BA. (2022) The complex life course of mobility: Quantitative description of 300,000 residential moves in 1850-1950 Netherlands. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4: e39
Pretelli I, Borgerhoff Mulder M, McElreath R. (2022) Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4: e34
Deffner D, McElreath R. (2022) When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations. Plos One. 17: e0267204
Deffner D, Kleinow V, McElreath R. (2020) Dynamic social learning in temporally and spatially variable environments. Royal Society Open Science. 7: 200734
Broesch T, Crittenden AN, Beheim BA, et al. (2020) Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 287: 20201245
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