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Eric Alden Smith is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, drawing on insights from molecular biology, physiology, and social sciences.

The scientist's main areas of interest include evolutionary psychology and human behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, primate behavior and ecology, wildlife ecology and conservation, as well as animal behavior and reproduction. Additional focus areas encompass animal vocal communication and diet and metabolism studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Circulation Research
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Eric Alden Smith has collaborated repeatedly with a cohort of researchers contributing to various publications. Key frequent co-authors include Jennifer E. Smith, Paul L. Hooper, Frank W. Marlowe, Michael Gurven, and Samuel Bowles.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Ecological variation and institutionalized inequality in hunter-gatherer societies, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Increased Drp1 Acetylation by Lipid Overload Induces Cardiomyocyte Death and Heart Dysfunction, 2020, Circulation Research
  • The multinomial index: a robust measure of reproductive skew, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital.

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eric Alden Smith

  • Costly signaling and cooperation.

    Herbert Gintis;Eric Alden Smith;Samuel Bowles

  • Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment

    Rada Dyson-Hudson;Eric Alden Smith

  • Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply]

    Hillard Kaplan;Kim Hill;Rowe V. Cadeliña;Brian Hayden

  • Analyzing adaptive strategies: Human behavioral ecology at twenty‐five

    Bruce Winterhalder;Eric Alden Smith

  • Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior

    Eric Alden Smith;Bruce Winterhalder

  • Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: public generosity as costly signaling

    Eric Alden Smith;Rebecca L.Bliege Bird

  • Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and humans

    Joseph H. Manson;Richard W. Wrangham;James L. Boone;Bernard Chapais

  • CONSERVATION AND SUBSISTENCE IN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES

    Eric Alden Smith;Mark Wishnie

  • Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review [and Comments and Reply]

    Eric Alden Smith;Robert L. Bettinger;Charles A. Bishop;Valda Blundell

  • Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Samuel Bowles;Tom Hertz;Adrian Bell

  • The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

    Rebecca Bliege Bird;Eric Alden Smith;Douglas W. Bird

  • Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]

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  • Land Degradation: Effects on Food and Energy Resources

    David Pimentel;Elinor C. Terhune;Rada Dyson-Hudson;Stephen Rochereau

  • The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters

    Eric Alden Smith;Rebecca Bliege Bird;Douglas W. Bird

  • Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success

    Eric Alden Smith

  • Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: a guide for the perplexed.

    Eric A. Smith;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Kim Hill

  • Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior

    Eric Alden Smith

  • Inujjuamiut Foraging Strategies: Evolutionary Ecology of an Arctic Hunting Economy

    Eric Alden Smith

  • Intraspecific Prey Choice by Amazonian Hunters [and Comments and Reply]

    Michael Alvard;Janis B. Alcorn;Richard E. Bodmer;Raymond Hames

  • Hematopoietic recovery in patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies.

    Tania Jain;Andrea Knezevic;Martina Pennisi;Yunxin Chen;Yunxin Chen

  • A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Herbert Gintis;George Ainslie;Larry Arnhart;R. Alexander Bentley

Frequent Co-Authors

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis
Michael Gurven
Michael Gurven University of California, Santa Barbara
Hillard Kaplan
Hillard Kaplan Chapman University
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Christopher von Rueden
Christopher von Rueden University of Richmond
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Rebecca Sear
Rebecca Sear London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Bobbi S. Low
Bobbi S. Low University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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