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Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital by Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Smith, Eric Alden

“…Signaling theory provides an opportunity to integrate an interactive theory of symbolic communication and social benefit with materialist theories of…”
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Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers by Smith, Eric Alden, Hill, Kim, Marlowe, Frank W., Nolin, David, Wiessner, Polly, Gurven, Michael, Bowles, Samuel, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian

“…We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population‐wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter‐gatherer populations…”
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Communication and collective action: language and the evolution of human cooperation by Smith, Eric Alden

“…Abstract All social species face various “collective action problems” (CAPs) or “social dilemmas,” meaning problems in achieving cooperating when the best move…”
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Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff by Smith, Jennifer E., Gavrilets, Sergey, Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Hooper, Paul L., Mouden, Claire El, Nettle, Daniel, Hauert, Christoph, Hill, Kim, Perry, Susan, Pusey, Anne E., van Vugt, Mark, Smith, Eric Alden

“…Leadership is an active area of research in both the biological and social sciences. This review provides a transdisciplinary synthesis of biological and…”
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The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies: Introduction to the Special Section by Bowles, Samuel, Smith, Eric Alden, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique

“…In this special section we propose an interpretation of the emergence and persistence of wealth inequality in premodern populations along with ethnographic and…”
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies by Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Bowles, Samuel, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian, Beise, Jan, Clark, Greg, Fazzio, Ila, Gurven, Michael, Hill, Kim, Hooper, Paul L, Irons, William, Kaplan, Hillard, Leonetti, Donna, Low, Bobbi, Marlowe, Frank, McElreath, Richard, Naidu, Suresh, Nolin, David, Piraino, Patrizio, Quinlan, Rob, Schniter, Eric, Sear, Rebecca, Shenk, Mary, Smith, Eric Alden, von Rueden, Christopher, Wiessner, Polly

“…Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We…”
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Production Systems, Inheritance, and Inequality in Premodern Societies: Conclusions by Smith, Eric Alden, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Bowles, Samuel, Gurven, Michael, Hertz, Tom, Shenk, Mary K.

“…Premodern human societies differ greatly in socioeconomic inequality. Despite much useful theorizing on the causes of these differences, individual‐level…”
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CONSERVATION AND SUBSISTENCE IN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES by Smith, Eric Alden, Wishnie, Mark

“…Some scholars have championed the view that small-scale societies are conservers or even creators of biodiversity. Others have argued that human populations…”
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The Hunting Handicap: Costly Signaling in Human Foraging Strategies by Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Smith, Eric Alden, Bird, Douglas W.

“…Humans sometimes forage or distribute the products of foraging in ways that do not maximize individual energetic return rates. As an alternative to hypotheses…”
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Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing by Bliege Bird, Rebecca, Bird, Douglas W, Smith, Eric Alden, Kushnick, Geoffrey C

“…Foragers who do not practice food storage might adapt to fluctuating food supplies by sharing surplus resources in times of plenty with the expectation of…”
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The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies by Bowles, Samuel, Smith, Eric Alden, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique

“…In this special section we propose an interpretation of the emergence and persistence of wealth inequality in premodern populations along with ethnographic and…”
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Ecological variation and institutionalized inequality in hunter-gatherer societies by Smith, Eric Alden, Codding, Brian F.

“…Research examining institutionalized hierarchy tends to focus on chiefdoms and states, while its emergence among small-scale societies remains poorly…”
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Is It Evolution Yet? A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology by Boone, James L., Smith, Eric Alden

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Agency and Adaptation: New Directions in Evolutionary Anthropology by Smith, Eric Alden

“…Neo-Darwinian evolution is widely acknowledged as the key framework for understanding the form and function of living systems, including myriad aspects of…”
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Status effects on men’s reproductive success by Smith, Eric Alden

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Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality by Smith, Eric Alden, Smith, Jennifer E, Codding, Brian F

“…Inequality is increasingly recognized as a major problem in contemporary society. The causes and consequences of inequality in wealth and power have long been…”
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Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply] by Hawkes, Kristen, Altman, Jon, Beckerman, Stephen, Grinker, Roy Richard, Harpending, Henry, Jeske, Robert J., Peterson, Nicolas, Smith, Eric Alden, Wenzel, George W., Yellen, John E.

“…The traditional explanation of resource sharing among the !Kung, Ache, & Hadza foragers holds that sharing resources in the present obligates recipients to…”
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Endless forms: human behavioural diversity and evolved universals by Smith, Eric Alden

“…Human populations have extraordinary capabilities for generating behavioural diversity without corresponding genetic diversity or change. These capabilities…”
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Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success? by Smith, Eric Alden

“…Anecdotal evidence from many hunter-gatherer societies suggests that successful hunters experience higher prestige and greater reproductive success. Detailed…”
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The multinomial index: a robust measure of reproductive skew by Ross, Cody T, Jaeggi, Adrian V, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Smith, Jennifer E, Smith, Eric Alden, Gavrilets, Sergey, Hooper, Paul L

“…Inequality or skew in reproductive success (RS) is common across many animal species and is of long-standing interest to the study of social evolution…”
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