Peter J. Richerson, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
1971- Environmental Science and Policy University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 
Area:
Cultural evolution, Limnology
Website:
http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Richerson.htm

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2023 Efferson C, Richerson PJ, Weinberger VP. Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 379: 20220257. PMID 37952623 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0257  0.66
2023 Richerson PJ, Boyd RT, Efferson C. Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 379: 20220252. PMID 37952614 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0252  0.7
2021 Richerson PJ, Gavrilets S, de Waal FBM. Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin's . Science (New York, N.Y.). 372. PMID 34016754 DOI: 10.1126/science.aba3776  0.329
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  0.377
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  0.343
2017 Gavrilets S, Richerson PJ. Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28533363 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1703857114  0.329
2017 Richerson PJ. Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission among Hunter‐Gatherers by Peter David Jordan Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. 412 pp. American Anthropologist. 119: 556-557. DOI: 10.1111/Aman.12895  0.391
2017 Brooks JS, Waring TM, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Richerson PJ. Applying cultural evolution to sustainability challenges: an introduction to the special issue Sustainability Science. 13: 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/S11625-017-0516-3  0.705
2016 Reyes-Garcia V, Balbo AL, Gomez-Baggethun E, Gueze M, Mesoudi A, Richerson PJ, Rubio-Campillo X, Ruiz-Mallén I, Shennan SJ. Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: examples from past and present small-scale societies Ecology and Society. 21: 2. PMID 27774109 DOI: 10.5751/Es-08561-210402  0.416
2016 Richerson PJ. TIM LEWENS, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges, Oxford University Press, x + 205. p. 2015. $45.00. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 38: 15. PMID 27704401 DOI: 10.1007/S40656-016-0116-Z  0.303
2016 Richerson P, Baldini R, Bell AV, Demps K, Frost K, Hillis V, Mathew S, Newton EK, Naar N, Newson L, Ross C, Smaldino PE, Waring TM, Zefferman M. Cultural group selection follows Darwin's classic syllogism for the operation of selection. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e58. PMID 27561598 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000606  0.769
2016 Richerson P, Baldini R, Bell AV, Demps K, Frost K, Hillis V, Mathew S, Newton EK, Naar N, Newson L, Ross C, Smaldino PE, Waring TM, Zefferman M. Cultural group selection follows Darwin's classic syllogism for the operation of selection Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e58. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000606  0.798
2014 Richerson P, Baldini R, Bell A, Demps K, Frost K, Hillis V, Mathew S, Newton E, Narr N, Newson L, Ross C, Smaldino P, Waring T, Zefferman M. Cultural Group Selection Plays an Essential Role in Explaining Human Cooperation: A Sketch of the Evidence. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1-71. PMID 25347943 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1400106X  0.782
2014 Ross CT, Richerson PJ. New frontiers in the study of human cultural and genetic evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 29: 103-9. PMID 25218864 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gde.2014.08.014  0.406
2014 Zefferman MR, Richerson PJ. Many important group-level traits are institutions Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 280-281. PMID 24970427 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003087  0.799
2014 Schubert C, Cordes C, Richerson PJ. Reply to modeling the evolution of preferences: An answer to schubert and Cordes (JOIE-2013-195.R1) Journal of Institutional Economics. 10: 349-351. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137414000010  0.338
2014 Brown GR, Richerson PJ. Applying evolutionary theory to human behaviour: Past differences and current debates Journal of Bioeconomics. 16: 105-128. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-013-9166-4  0.439
2013 Smaldino PE, Newson L, Schank JC, Richerson PJ. Simulating the evolution of the human family: Cooperative breeding increases in harsh environments Plos One. 8. PMID 24278318 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0080753  0.354
2013 Richerson P. Human evolution: Group size determines cultural complexity Nature. 503: 351-352. PMID 24226771 DOI: 10.1038/Nature12708  0.454
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  0.664
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  0.803
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  0.306
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  0.602
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  0.318
2011 Waring TM, Richerson PJ. Towards unification of the socio-ecological sciences: The value of coupled models Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography. 93: 301-314. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0467.2011.00384.X  0.692
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  0.736
2011 Richerson P. Evolution: Not so selfish Nature. 476: 29-30. DOI: 10.1038/476029A  0.315
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  0.573
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  0.349
2010 Richerson PJ, Boydb R, Henrichc J. Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 8985-8992. PMID 20445092 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0914631107  0.301
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  0.785
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  0.403
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  0.772
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  0.631
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  0.784
2008 Bell AV, Richerson PJ. Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson, Genes, Mind, and Culture: 25th Anniversary Edition Journal of Bioeconomics. 10: 307-314. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-008-9041-X  0.632
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  0.629
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  0.776
2007 Efferson C, Richerson PJ. A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences Biology and Philosophy. 22: 1-33. DOI: 10.1007/S10539-005-9013-7  0.689
2006 Paciotti B, Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Cultural evolutionary theory: A synthetic theory for fragmented disciplines Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches. 365-370. DOI: 10.4324/9781410616982  0.72
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  0.767
2004 Baum WM, Richerson PJ, Efferson CM, Paciotti BM. Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following Evolution and Human Behavior. 25: 305-326. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2004.05.003  0.782
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  0.302
2003 McElreath R, Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers Current Anthropology. 44: 122-129. DOI: 10.1086/345689  0.564
1996 Boehm C, Antweiler C, Eibl-Eibesfeldt I, Kent S, Knauft BM, Mithen S, Richerson PJ, Wilson DS. Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 37: 763-793. DOI: 10.1086/204561  0.428
1992 Chou LS, Richerson PJ. Multiple models in social transmission of food selection by Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus Animal Behaviour. 44: 337-343. DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(92)90039-C  0.317
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  0.307
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  0.324
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  0.307
1988 Carney HJ, Richerson PJ, Goldman CR, Richards RC. Seasonal phytoplankton demographic processes and experiments on interspecific competition Ecology. 69: 664-678. DOI: 10.2307/1941015  0.515
1987 Coon TG, Lopez MM, Richerson PJ, Powell TM, Goldman CR. Summer dynamics of the deep chlorophyll maximum in Lake Tahoe Journal of Plankton Research. 9: 327-344. DOI: 10.1093/Plankt/9.2.327  0.413
1987 Neale PJ, Richerson PJ. Photoinhibition and the diurnal variation of phytoplankton photosynthesis-I. Development of a photosynthesis-irradiance model from studies of in situ responses Journal of Plankton Research. 9: 167-193. DOI: 10.1093/Plankt/9.1.167  0.576
1986 VINCENT W, WURTSBAUGH W, NEALE P, RICHERSON PJ. Polymixis and algal production in a tropical lake: latitudinal effects on the seasonality of photosynthesis Freshwater Biology. 16: 781-803. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1986.tb01017.x  0.522
1986 Richerson PJ, Neale PJ, Wurtsbaugh W, René Alfaro T, Vincent W. Patterns of temporal variation in Lake Titicaca. A high altitude tropical lake. I. Background, physical and chemical processes, and primary production Hydrobiologia. 138: 205-220. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00027241  0.591
1985 Richerson PJ. Biological Anthropology: Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution. Joseph Lopreato American Anthropologist. 87: 437-438. DOI: 10.1525/Aa.1985.87.2.02A00450  0.302
1985 Powell T, Richerson PJ. Temporal variation, spatial heterogeneity, and competition for resources in plankton systems: a theoretical model. American Naturalist. 125: 431-464. DOI: 10.1086/284352  0.325
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  0.43
1984 Abbott MR, Denman KL, Powell TM, Richerson PJ, Richards RC, Goldman CR. Mixing and the dynamics of the deep chlorophyll maximum in Lake Tahoe1 Limnology and Oceanography. 29: 862-878. DOI: 10.4319/Lo.1984.29.4.0862  0.506
1984 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Natural Selection and Culture Bioscience. 34: 430-434. DOI: 10.2307/1309632  0.375
1984 Vincent WF, Neale PJ, Richerson PJ. PHOTOINHIBITION: ALGAL RESPONSES TO BRIGHT LIGHT DURING DIEL STRATIFICATION AND MIXING IN A TROPICAL ALPINE LAKE1 Journal of Phycology. 20: 201-211. DOI: 10.1111/J.0022-3646.1984.00201.X  0.561
1984 Powell T, Kirkish MH, Neale PJ, Richerson PJ. The diurnal cycle of stratification in Lake Titicaca: Eddy diffusion Sil Proceedings, 1922-2010. 22: 1237-1243. DOI: 10.1080/03680770.1983.11897476  0.496
1984 Richerson PJ, Neale P, Wurtsbaugh W, Alfaro T. R, Vincent W. Patterns of temporal variation in primary production and other limnological variables in Lake Titicaca, a high altitude tropical lake Sil Proceedings, 1922-2010. 22: 1231-1231. DOI: 10.1080/03680770.1983.11897474  0.543
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  0.415
1983 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Comment by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. Evolutionary models of culture and the 'meaning' sense of information: Who is confused about what? Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 6: 139-141. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1750(83)80005-0  0.353
1982 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. Cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperative behavior Human Ecology. 10: 325-351. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01531189  0.345
1981 Richerson PJ, Boyd R. Models to Study Cultural Transmission Bioscience. 31: 164-164. DOI: 10.2307/1308277  0.34
1980 Richerson PJ, Lum K. Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in California: Relation to Weather and Topography The American Naturalist. 116: 504-536. DOI: 10.1086/283645  0.302
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  0.425
1977 Richerson PJ. ecology and human ecology: a comparison of theories in the biological and social sciences1 American Ethnologist. 4: 1-26. DOI: 10.1525/Ae.1977.4.1.02A00010  0.408
1976 Boyd R, Richerson PJ. A Simple Dual Inheritance Model Of The Conflict Between Social And Biological Evolution Zygon. 11: 254-262. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9744.1976.Tb00285.X  0.377
1974 Gill CJ, Goldman CR, III JM, Richerson PJ. Environmental Quality and Water Development. The Journal of Applied Ecology. 11: 814. DOI: 10.2307/2402232  0.395
1970 Richerson P, Armstrong R, Goldman CR. Contemporaneous disequilibrium, a new hypothesis to explain the "paradox of the plankton". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 67: 1710-4. PMID 5275371 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.67.4.1710  0.518
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