Selected Publications and Working Papers


1. Books and Journal Issues

Inujjuamiut Foraging Strategies: Evolutionary Ecology of an Arctic Hunting Economy. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1991).

Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. Ed. E. A. Smith & B. Winterhalder. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1992).

Contested Arctic: Indigenous Peoples, Nation States, and Circumpolar Environments. Ed. E. A. Smith and J. McCarter. Seattle: U of Washington Press (1997).

Special double issue on “The evolution of culture.” Evolutionary Anthropology volume 12, issues 2 & 3.  Ed. C. H. Janson and E. A. Smith (2003).
 

2. Articles and Chapters

Inuit sex ratio variation: population control, ethnographic artifact, or parental manipulation? (With S. Abigail Smith.) Current Anthropology 35: 595-624 (1994).

Inuit hunting groups: some simple models incorporating conflicts of interest, relatedness, and central-place sharing. (Reprint of 1985 Ethology and Sociobiology article.) In Human Nature: A Critical Reader, ed. Laura M. Betzig, pp 50-69. Oxford University Press (1996).

Sex is not enough. In Evolution and Human Behavior: A Critical Reader, ed. Laura M. Betzig, pp. 70-72. Oxford University Press (1996).

Is it evolution yet? A critique of evolutionary archaeology (2nd author with James Boone). Current Anthropology 39(3):141-173 (1998).

Is Tibetan polyandry adaptive? Methodological and metatheoretical critiques. Human Nature 9(3):225-261 (1998).

Analyzing adaptive strategies: human behavioral ecology at twenty-five (2nd author with Bruce Winterhalder). Evolutionary Anthropology 9:51-72 (2000).

Three styles in the evolutionary study of human behavior. In Human Behavior and Adaptation: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by Lee Cronk, William Irons, and Napoleon Chagnon, pp 27.46. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (2000).

Turtle hunting and tombstone openings: Generosity and costly signaling (co-authored with Rebecca Bliege Bird). Evolution and Human Behavior 21:245-61 (2000).

Evolutionary analyses of human behaviour: a commentary on Daly & Wilson (co-authored with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Kim Hill). Animal Behaviour 60:F20-F26 (2000).

Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies (coauthored with Mark Wishnie). Annual Review of Anthropology 29:493-524 (2000).

Controversies in the evolutionary social sciences: A guide to the perplexed (coauthored with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Kim Hill.) Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:128-135 (2001).

The hunting handicap: costly signaling in male foraging strategies (co-authored with Rebecca Bliege Bird and Douglas Bird). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 50:9-19 (2001).

On the coevolution of cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity. In Language, Knowledge, and the Environment: The Interdependence of Biological and Cultural Diversity, edited by Luisa Maffi. Smithsonian Institution Press (2001).

Cooperation and costly signaling (coauthored with Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles). Journal of Theoretical Biology 213:103-119 (2001).

Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food-sharing (coauthored with Rebecca Bliege Bird, Doug Bird, and Geoff Kushnick). Evolution and Human Behavior 23:297-321 (2002).

The benefits of costly signaling: Meriam turtle hunters. (coauthored with Rebecca Bliege Bird and Doug Bird). Behavioral Ecology 14(1):116-126 (2003).

The evolution of culture: new perspectives and evidence (coauthored with Charles H. Janson). Evolutionary Anthropology 12(2):57-60 (2003).

Human cooperation: perspectives from behavioral ecology.  In Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, ed. P. Hammerstein, pp. 401-427.  Cambridge, MA:  The MIT Press (2003).

Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success?  Human Nature 15(4):342-363 (2005).

Signaling theory, strategic interaction, and symbolic capital (coauthored with Rebecca Bliege Bird).  Current Anthropology 46(2):221-248 (2005).

Costly signaling and cooperative behavior. (coauthored with Rebecca Bliege Bird).  In Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, ed. H. Gintis, S. Bowles, R. Boyd, and E. Fehr, pp. 115-148.  Cambridge, MA:  The MIT Press (2005).

Anthropological schismsAnthropology Newsletter, American Anthropological Association.  January 2006, pp. 8-11.
 

3. Working Papers

The emergence of inequality in small-scale societies: Simple scenarios and agent-based simulations (coauthored with Jung-Kyoo Choi).  In The Model-based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems, ed. T. Kohler and S. van der Leeuw. Santa Fe: SAR Press (to appear June 2007).

Reconstructing the evolution of the human mind.  In The Evolution of Mind, ed. S. Gangestad and J. Simpson.  NY: Guilford (in press).


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