Richard McElreath, PhD - Publications

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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2023 Brinkmann L, Baumann F, Bonnefon JF, Derex M, Müller TF, Nussberger AM, Czaplicka A, Acerbi A, Griffiths TL, Henrich J, Leibo JZ, McElreath R, Oudeyer PY, Stray J, Rahwan I. Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour. 7: 1855-1868. PMID 37985914 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01742-2  0.549
2023 Pretelli I, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Makame Khamis B, McElreath R. Foraging and the importance of knowledge in Pemba, Tanzania: implications for childhood evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 290: 20231505. PMID 37964531 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1505  0.768
2023 Smaldino PE, McElreath R. Correction to: 'The natural selection of bad science' (2016) by Paul E. Smaldino and Richard McElreath. Royal Society Open Science. 10: rsos231026. PMID 37680497 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231026  0.704
2023 Ross CT, Hooper PL, Smith JE, Jaeggi AV, Smith EA, Gavrilets S, Zohora FT, Ziker J, Xygalatas D, Wroblewski EE, Wood B, Winterhalder B, Willführ KP, Willard AK, Walker K, ... ... McElreath R, et al. Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2220124120. PMID 37216525 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220124120  0.685
2023 Kohrt F, Smaldino PE, McElreath R, Schönbrodt F. Replication of the natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 221306. PMID 36844805 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221306  0.72
2022 Fedorova N, McElreath R, Beheim BA. The complex life course of mobility: Quantitative description of 300,000 residential moves in 1850-1950 Netherlands. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4: e39. PMID 37588941 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.33  0.669
2022 Pretelli I, Borgerhoff Mulder M, McElreath R. Rates of ecological knowledge learning in Pemba, Tanzania: Implications for childhood evolution. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4: e34. PMID 37588933 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.31  0.771
2022 Deffner D, McElreath R. When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations. Plos One. 17: e0267204. PMID 35427404 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267204  0.803
2020 Deffner D, Kleinow V, McElreath R. Dynamic social learning in temporally and spatially variable environments. Royal Society Open Science. 7: 200734. PMID 33489255 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200734  0.789
2020 Broesch T, Crittenden AN, Beheim BA, Blackwell AD, Bunce JA, Colleran H, Hagel K, Kline M, McElreath R, Nelson RG, Pisor AC, Prall S, Pretelli I, Purzycki B, Quinn EA, et al. Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 287: 20201245. PMID 32962541 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1245  0.765
2020 Koster J, McElreath R, Hill K, Yu D, Shepard G, van Vliet N, Gurven M, Trumble B, Bird RB, Bird D, Codding B, Coad L, Pacheco-Cobos L, Winterhalder B, Lupo K, et al. The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation. Science Advances. 6: eaax9070. PMID 32637588 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aax9070  0.412
2020 Deffner D, McElreath R. The importance of life history and population regulation for the evolution of social learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 375: 20190492. PMID 32475333 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2019.0492  0.789
2020 Scelza BA, Prall SP, Swinford N, Gopalan S, Atkinson EG, McElreath R, Sheehama J, Henn BM. High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population demonstrates diversity in human reproductive strategies. Science Advances. 6: eaay6195. PMID 32128411 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aay6195  0.363
2019 Scelza BA, Prall SP, Blumenfield T, Crittenden AN, Gurven M, Kline M, Koster J, Kushnick G, Mattison SM, Pillsworth E, Shenk MK, Starkweather K, Stieglitz J, Sum CY, Yamaguchi K, ... McElreath R, et al. Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 31332300 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-019-0654-Y  0.692
2019 Trimmer PC, Barrett BJ, McElreath R, Sih A. Rapid environmental change in games: complications and counter-intuitive outcomes. Scientific Reports. 9: 7373. PMID 31089166 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-019-43770-X  0.379
2018 Clarke PMR, McElreath MB, Barrett BJ, Mabry KE, McElreath R. The evolution of bequeathal in stable habitats. Ecology and Evolution. 8: 10594-10607. PMID 30464831 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4549  0.327
2018 Ross CT, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Oh SY, Bowles S, Beheim B, Bunce J, Caudell M, Clark G, Colleran H, Cortez C, Draper P, Greaves RD, Gurven M, Headland T, Headland J, ... ... McElreath R, et al. Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 15. PMID 30021924 DOI: 10.1098/Rsif.2018.0035  0.341
2018 McElreath R. Modelling provides clues to the evolution of human brain size. Nature. 557: 496-497. PMID 29789743 DOI: 10.1038/D41586-018-05197-8  0.307
2018 Smaldino PE, Flamson TJ, McElreath R. The Evolution of Covert Signaling. Scientific Reports. 8: 4905. PMID 29559650 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-22926-1  0.753
2018 Bunce JA, McElreath R. Sustainability of minority culture when inter-ethnic interaction is profitable Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 205-212. DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0306-7  0.383
2018 Purzycki BG, Pisor AC, Apicella C, Atkinson Q, Cohen E, Henrich J, McElreath R, McNamara RA, Norenzayan A, Willard AK, Xygalatas D. The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 490-501. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.04.004  0.63
2017 Koster J, McElreath R. Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71: 138. PMID 28959087 DOI: 10.1007/S00265-017-2363-8  0.343
2017 Bunce JA, McElreath R. Interethnic Interaction, Strategic Bargaining Power, and the Dynamics of Cultural Norms : A Field Study in an Amazonian Population. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). PMID 28822079 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-017-9297-8  0.445
2017 Aplin LM, Sheldon BC, McElreath R. Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28739943 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1621067114  0.448
2016 Smaldino PE, McElreath R. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science. 3: 160384. PMID 27703703 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.160384  0.762
2016 Bauch CT, McElreath R. Disease dynamics and costly punishment can foster socially imposed monogamy. Nature Communications. 7: 11219. PMID 27044573 DOI: 10.1038/Ncomms11219  0.341
2015 Schroeder KB, Nettle D, McElreath R. Interactions between personality and institutions in cooperative behaviour in humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370. PMID 26503684 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2015.0011  0.394
2015 McElreath R, Smaldino PE. Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery. Plos One. 10: e0136088. PMID 26308448 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0136088  0.757
2015 Arsnoe IM, Hickling GJ, Ginsberg HS, McElreath R, Tsao JI. Different populations of blacklegged tick nymphs exhibit differences in questing behavior that have implications for human lyme disease risk. Plos One. 10: e0127450. PMID 25996603 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0127450  0.307
2015 Wallin A, McElreath R. Strategies for advice taking: The role of epistemic social information Economics and Philosophy. 31: 67-91. DOI: 10.1017/S0266267114000406  0.352
2014 McElreath R, Koster J. Using multilevel models to estimate variation in foraging returns. Effects of failure rate, harvest size, age, and individual heterogeneity. Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.). 25: 100-20. PMID 24522975 DOI: 10.1007/S12110-014-9193-4  0.309
2014 Beheim BA, Thigpen C, Mcelreath R. Strategic social learning and the population dynamics of human behavior: The game of Go Evolution and Human Behavior. 35: 351-357. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2014.04.001  0.465
2013 House BR, Silk JB, Henrich J, Barrett HC, Scelza BA, Boyette AH, Hewlett BS, McElreath R, Laurence S. Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 14586-91. PMID 23959869 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1221217110  0.604
2013 Smaldino PE, Schank JC, McElreath R. Increased costs of cooperation help cooperators in the long run. The American Naturalist. 181: 451-63. PMID 23535611 DOI: 10.1086/669615  0.763
2013 Schroeder KB, McElreath R, Nettle D. Variants at serotonin transporter and 2A receptor genes predict cooperative behavior differentially according to presence of punishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 3955-60. PMID 23431136 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1216841110  0.307
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  0.787
2012 Baum WM, Paciotti B, Richerson P, Lubell M, McElreath R. Cooperation due to cultural norms, not individual reputation. Behavioural Processes. 91: 90-3. PMID 22688080 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2012.06.001  0.626
2012 Dawes CT, Loewen PJ, Schreiber D, Simmons AN, Flagan T, McElreath R, Bokemper SE, Fowler JH, Paulus MP. Neural basis of egalitarian behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 6479-83. PMID 22493264 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1118653109  0.34
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  0.773
2012 McElreath R, Henrich J. Modelling cultural evolution Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0039  0.532
2012 Henrich J, McElreath R. Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0038  0.542
2011 Paciotti B, Richerson P, Baum B, Lubell M, Waring T, McElreath R, Efferson C, Edsten E. Are religious individuals more generous, trusting, and cooperative? An experimental test of the effect of religion on prosociality Research in Economic Anthropology. 31: 267-305. DOI: 10.1108/S0190-1281(2011)0000031014  0.52
2011 Patricelli GL, Krakauer AH, McElreath R. Assets and tactics in a mating market: Economic models of negotiation offer insights into animal courtship dynamics on the lek Current Zoology. 57: 225-236. DOI: 10.1093/Czoolo/57.2.225  0.351
2011 Cordes C, Richerson P, McElreath R, Strimling P. How does opportunistic behavior influence firm size? An evolutionary approach to organizational behavior Journal of Institutional Economics. 7: 1-21. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137410000123  0.597
2010 Sih A, Stamps J, Yang LH, McElreath R, Ramenofsky M. Behavior as a key component of integrative biology in a human-altered world. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50: 934-44. PMID 21558249 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icq148  0.354
2010 Henrich J, Ensminger J, McElreath R, Barr A, Barrett C, Bolyanatz A, Cardenas JC, Gurven M, Gwako E, Henrich N, Lesorogol C, Marlowe F, Tracer D, Ziker J. Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment. Science (New York, N.Y.). 327: 1480-4. PMID 20299588 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1182238  0.606
2010 Henrich J, Ensminger J, McElreath R, Barr A, Barrett C, Bolyanatz A, Cardenas JC, Gurven M, Gwako E, Henrich N, Lesorogol C, Marlowe F, Tracer D, Ziker J. Response--Evolution of Fairness Science. 329: 389-390. DOI: 10.1126/Science.329.5990.389-B  0.602
2010 Smirnov O, Dawes CT, Fowler JH, Johnson T, McElreath R. The Behavioral Logic of Collective Action: Partisans Cooperate and Punish More Than Nonpartisans Political Psychology. 31: 595-616. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9221.2010.00768.X  0.341
2009 Bell AV, Richerson PJ, McElreath R. Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 17671-17674. PMID 19822753 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0903232106  0.616
2009 McElreath R. Linking the micro and macro in cultural evolution Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24: 588-589. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2009.07.009  0.336
2008 McElreath R, Bell AV, Efferson C, Lubell M, Richerson PJ, Waring T. Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: Estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363: 3515-3528. PMID 18799416 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2008.0131  0.63
2008 McElreath R, Strimling P. When natural selection favors imitation of parents Current Anthropology. 49: 307-316. DOI: 10.1086/524364  0.395
2008 Cordes C, Richerson PJ, McElreath R, Strimling P. A naturalistic approach to the theory of the firm: The role of cooperation and cultural evolution Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 68: 125-139. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2008.03.008  0.64
2008 Efferson C, Lalive R, Richerson PJ, McElreath R, Lubell M. Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission Evolution and Human Behavior. 29: 56-64. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2007.08.003  0.634
2007 McElreath R, Luttbeg B, Fogarty SP, Brodin T, Sih A. Evolution of animal personalities. Nature. 450: E5; discussion E5-6. PMID 17994035 DOI: 10.1038/Nature06326  0.322
2007 Dawes CT, Fowler JH, Johnson T, McElreath R, Smirnov O. Egalitarian motives in humans. Nature. 446: 794-6. PMID 17429399 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05651  0.335
2007 Efferson C, Takezawa M, McElreath R. New methods in quantitative ethnography: Economic experiments and variation in the price of equality Current Anthropology. 48: 912-919. DOI: 10.1086/523016  0.316
2007 Newson L, Postmes T, Lea SEG, Webley P, Richerson PJ, Mcelreath R. Influences on communication about reproduction: the cultural evolution of low fertility Evolution and Human Behavior. 28: 199-210. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2007.01.003  0.642
2007 Efferson C, Richerson PJ, McElreath R, Lubell M, Edsten E, Waring TM, Paciotti B, Baum W. Learning, productivity, and noise: an experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano Evolution and Human Behavior. 28: 11-17. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2006.05.005  0.656
2006 Henrich J, McElreath R, Barr A, Ensminger J, Barrett C, Bolyanatz A, Cardenas JC, Gurven M, Gwako E, Henrich N, Lesorogol C, Marlowe F, Tracer D, Ziker J. Costly punishment across human societies. Science (New York, N.Y.). 312: 1767-70. PMID 16794075 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1127333  0.635
2006 McELREATH R, SCHROEDER K. The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach American Anthropologist. 108: 909-910. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.2006.108.4.909  0.306
2006 McElreath R, Strimling P. How noisy information and individual asymmetries can make 'personality' an adaptation: a simple model Animal Behaviour. 72: 1135-1139. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2006.04.001  0.336
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  0.802
2005 Stamps J, McElreath R, Eason P. Alternative models of conspecific attraction in flies and crabs Behavioral Ecology. 16: 974-980. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Ari083  0.325
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  0.793
2005 McElreath R, Lubell M, Richerson PJ, Waring TM, Baum W, Edsten E, Efferson C, Paciotti B. Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning Evolution and Human Behavior. 26: 483-508. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2005.04.003  0.646
2004 McElreath R. Social learning and the maintenance of cultural variation: An evolutionary model and data from East Africa American Anthropologist. 106: 308-321. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.2004.106.2.308  0.453
2003 McElreath R. Reputation and the evolution of conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 220: 345-57. PMID 12468284 DOI: 10.1006/Jtbi.2003.3166  0.372
2003 Gigerenzer G, McElreath R. Social intelligence in games Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 159: 188-194. DOI: 10.1628/0932456032975050  0.61
2003 McElreath R, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers Current Anthropology. 44: 122-129. DOI: 10.1086/345689  0.636
2003 Henrich J, McElreath R. The Evolution of Cultural Evolution Evolutionary Anthropology. 12: 123-135. DOI: 10.1002/Evan.10110  0.658
2002 Kuznar L, Henrich J, Mc Elreath R. On Risk‐Prone Peasants: Cultural Transmission or Sigmoid Utility Maximization? Current Anthropology. 43: 787-789. DOI: 10.1086/344370  0.503
2002 Henrich J, Mcelreath R. Are peasants risk-averse decision makers? Current Anthropology. 43: 172-181. DOI: 10.1086/338291  0.5
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  0.676
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