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  • Trimm*, J.K. Cheney, C. Richerson, A.G. Latner, D. Webb A stepping stone or a different type of work altogether?

    Sweatcon 2009 mtrimm1 2009

  • Trimm*, J.K. Cheney, C. Richerson, A.G. Latner, D. Webb A stepping stone or a different type of work altogether?

    mtrimm1: Sweatcon 2009 mtrimm1 2009

  • Fr2100DZ Interstitial Fiction Fri 9: 00 PM-10: 00 PM deZavala Denton, Klaw, Person, Richerson, Trimm* A lot of recent fiction falls between the cracks of genre.

    Catchup Post mtrimm1 2008

  • Boyd and Richerson (1992) have developed models demonstrating that helping behavior (and, indeed, just about any sort of behavior) can evolve if informal punishment is meted out to individuals who do not help in circumstances when they are expected to.

    Hanging 2009

  • If Boyd and Richerson and Sripada are right, and we believe they are, then evolutionary theory gives us no reason to suppose that psychological altruism must be restricted to kin and individuals involved in reciprocal exchanges.

    Hanging 2009

  • Begossi, Alpina, and Peter J. Richerson (1991), “The Diffusion of ‘Lambreta’: An Artificial Lure, at Buzios Island (Brazil),” MAST, 4(2):87-103.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

  • Others, E. O Wilson and Charles Lumsden, Rob Boyd and Pete Richerson, have asked to what extent the evolved dispositions that both constrain and make possible culture are, in return, affected by cultural evolution itself so as to yield a kind of gene-culture coevolution.

    Human-Computer Interaction: Cognitive Science, Memes and Evolution 2006

  • Dual Transmission Models: Boyd and Richerson (1985) adapted models from genetics to model a case in which a trait (cooperation) was affected both by genetic and cultural evolution.

    Evolutionary Epistemology Bradie, Michael 2008

  • Boyd and Richerson (1985), for instance, were interested in a special kind of frequency dependent transmission bias in culture, where being common conferred an advantage due to imitators "doing as the Romans do."

    Evolutionary Epistemology Bradie, Michael 2008

  • “As long as they vote with their feet and hearts,” write Richerson and Boyd, “immigrants are a more powerful engine for social change than armies.”

    The Ancient Search for Peace 2008

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