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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Peter J. Richerson is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of sociology and political science, cultural studies, social psychology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The researcher's main topics of work include:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Frequent coauthors within their collaborations include:

  • Robert Boyd
  • Sergey Gavrilets
  • Frans Β. Μ. de Waal
  • Charles Efferson
  • Vanessa P. Weinberger

Notable publication venues where Peter J. Richerson has frequently contributed are:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Science
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Representative recent papers by Peter J. Richerson include:

  • "The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin's Descent of Man," 2021, Science
  • "Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability," 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Additional relevant publications associated with their research network include:

  • "Large-scale cooperation in small-scale foraging societies," 2022, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (authored by Robert Boyd)
  • "Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies," 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (authored by Charles Efferson)

Peter J. Richerson has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2007 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1984.

Best Publications

  • Culture and the evolutionary process

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution.

    Peter J. Richerson;Robert Boyd

  • The evolution of altruistic punishment

    Robert Boyd;Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Peter J. Richerson

  • The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

    Peter Richerson;Robert Boyd

  • Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson;Joseph Henrich

  • Culture and the evolution of human cooperation

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

    Greger Larson;Dolores R. Piperno;Robin G. Allaby;Michael D. Purugganan

  • Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers

    Richard Mcelreath;Richard Mcelreath;Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Why Culture is Common, but Cultural Evolution is Rare

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • WAS AGRICULTURE IMPOSSIBLE DURING THE PLEISTOCENE BUT MANDATORY DURING THE HOLOCENE? A CLIMATE CHANGE HYPOTHESIS

    Peter J. Richerson;Robert Boyd;Robert L. Bettinger

  • Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.

    Peter J. Richerson;Ryan Baldini;Adrian V. Bell;Kathryn Demps

  • Group Beneficial Norms Can Spread Rapidly in a Structured Population

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

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

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

  • Not by Genes Alone

    Robert Boyd;Peter Richerson

  • Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

    Peter J. Richerson;Rober T. Boyd;Joseph Henrich

  • Can Group-Functional Behaviors Evolve by Cultural Group Selection?: An Empirical Test

    Joseph Soltis;Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • The evolution of indirect reciprocity

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Why does culture increase human adaptability

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Culture and the Evolutionary Process.

    Christopher Badcock;Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Robert L. Bettinger
Robert L. Bettinger University of California, Davis
Mark Lubell
Mark Lubell University of California, Davis
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Michael D. Purugganan
Michael D. Purugganan New York University
Thomas M. Powell
Thomas M. Powell University of California, Berkeley
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford
Karl Sigmund
Karl Sigmund University of Vienna

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