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 evolutionGoogle:
"Richard McElreath"Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Robert Boyd | grad student | 1995-2001 | UCLA | |
| (Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.) | ||||
| Gerd Gigerenzer | post-doc | 2001-2002 | (Neurotree) | |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| 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) |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaborator| Peter J. Richerson | collaborator | 2002-2014 | UC Davis (Terrestrial Ecology Tree) |
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| Derex M, Bonnefon JF, Boyd R, et al. (2025) Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners' exploration. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 292: 20242499 |
| Deffner D, Fedorova N, Andrews J, et al. (2024) Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2322887121 |
| Fedorova N, Kandler A, McElreath R. (2024) Strategic housing decisions and the evolution of urban settlements: optimality modelling and empirical application in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Royal Society Open Science. 11: 241415 |
| Miu E, Rendell L, Bowles S, et al. (2024) The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity. Plos Computational Biology. 20: e1012436 |
| 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 |