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John P. Ziker

Researcher at Boise State University

Publications -  69
Citations -  3847

John P. Ziker is an academic researcher from Boise State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indigenous & Biology. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 58 publications receiving 3457 citations. Previous affiliations of John P. Ziker include University of Calgary & Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Costly Punishment Across Human Societies

TL;DR: Experimental results from 15 diverse populations show that all populations demonstrate some willingness to administer costly punishment as unequal behavior increases, and the magnitude of this punishment varies substantially across populations, and costly punishment positively covaries with altruistic behavior across populations.

Supporting Online Material for Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

TL;DR: Fairness is measured in thousands of individuals from 15 contemporary, small-scale societies to gain an understanding of the evolution of trustworthy exchange among human societies and shows that market integration positively covaries with fairness while community size positively covary with punishment.
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Food Sharing at Meals: Kinship, Reciprocity, and Clustering in the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, Northern Russia

TL;DR: The presence of a kinship link between nuclear families is the strongest predictor of interhousehold sharing in an indigenous, predominantly Dolgan food-sharing network in northern Russia, and the frequency of reciprocal meal sharing between families in this subset is positively correlated with average household relatedness.