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Peter J. Richerson
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 217
Citations - 28317
Peter J. Richerson is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociocultural evolution & Cultural transmission in animals. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 215 publications receiving 26763 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter J. Richerson include Bielefeld University & University College London.
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Culture and the evolutionary process
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: Using methods developed by population biologists, a theory of cultural evolution is proposed that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.
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Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution.
Peter J. Richerson,Robert Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: "Not by Genes Alone" offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that the authors' ecological dominance and their singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture.
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The evolution of altruistic punishment
TL;DR: It is shown that an important asymmetry between altruistic cooperation and altruistic punishment allows altruistic punished to evolve in populations engaged in one-time, anonymous interactions, and this process allows both altruism punishment and altruism cooperation to be maintained even when groups are large.
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Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that cooperation enforced by retribution can lead to the evolution of cooperation in two qualitatively different ways: (1) if benefits of cooperation to an individual are greater than the costs to a single individual of coercing the other n − 1 individuals to cooperate, then strategies which cooperate and punish non-cooperators, strategies that cooperate only if punished, and, sometimes, strategies which cooperation but do not punish will coexist in the long run.
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The evolution of indirect reciprocity
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: A simple mathematical model of the evolution of indirect reciprocity is described and analysis suggests that indirect reciprocities is unlikely to be important unless interacting groups are fairly small.