Selected Publications and Working Papers1. 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). Anthropological applications of optimal foraging theory: a critical review. Current Anthropology 24: 625‑51. (1983) Inuit hunting groups: some simple models incorporating conflicts of interest, relatedness, and central-place sharing. Ethology and Sociobiology 6:27-47 (1985). (Reprinted in Human Nature: A Critical Reader, ed. Laura M. Betzig, pp 50-69. Oxford University Press, 1996). On fitness maximization, limited needs, and hunter‑gatherer time allocation. Ethology and Sociobiology 8: 73‑85. (1987) Optimization theory in anthropology: applications and critiques. In The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, ed. John Dupre, pp. 201‑49. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/MIT Press. (1987) Risk and uncertainty in the "original affluent society": evolutionary ecology of resource sharing and land tenure. In Hunters and Gatherers: History, Evolution, and Social Change, ed. T. Ingold, D. Riches, and J. Woodburn, pp. 222‑52. Oxford: Berg. (1988) Risk and reciprocity: hunter‑gatherer socioecology and the problem of collective action (with Robert Boyd). In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, ed. E. Cashdan, pp. 167‑191. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (1990) Inuit sex ratio variation: population control, ethnographic artifact, or parental manipulation? (With S. Abigail Smith.) Current Anthropology 35: 595-624 (1994). 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:S141-S173 (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). 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 schisms.
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