| Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare S Mathew, R Boyd Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (28), 11375-11380, 2011 | 267 | 2011 |
| Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence P Richerson, R Baldini, AV Bell, K Demps, K Frost, V Hillis, S Mathew, ... Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39, 2016 | 199 | 2016 |
| A narrow road to cooperation R Boyd, S Mathew Science 316 (5833), 1858-1859, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| When does optional participation allow the evolution of cooperation? S Mathew, R Boyd Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1659), 1167-1174, 2008 | 56 | 2008 |
| Dating the origin of language using phonemic diversity C Perreault, S Mathew PloS one 7 (4), e35289, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| An evolutionary theory of large‐scale human warfare: Group‐structured cultural selection MR Zefferman, S Mathew Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 24 (2), 50-61, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Behavioural variation in 172 small-scale societies indicates that social learning is the main mode of human adaptation S Mathew, C Perreault Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0061, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Human cooperation among kin and close associates may require enforcement of norms by third parties. S Mathew, R Boyd, M van Veelen Cultural Evolution, ed. P. J. Richerson and M. Christiansen, Strüngmann …, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Third-party monitoring and sanctions aid the evolution of language R Boyd, S Mathew Evolution and Human Behavior 36 (6), 475-479, 2015 | 39* | 2015 |
| The cost of cowardice: punitive sentiments towards free riders in Turkana raids S Mathew, R Boyd Evolution and Human Behavior 35 (1), 58-64, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Cultural group selection follows Darwin's classic syllogism for the operation of selection P Richerson, R Baldini, AV Bell, K Demps, K Frost, V Hillis, S Mathew, ... Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39, 2016 | 22* | 2016 |
| Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups. FM Jordan, C van Schaik, P François, H Gintis, DBM Haun, DJ Hruschka, ... Cultural Evolution, ed. P. J. Richerson and M. Christiansen. Strüngmann …, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies M Lang, BG Purzycki, CL Apicella, QD Atkinson, A Bolyanatz, E Cohen, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1898), 20190202, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| How the second-order free rider problem is solved in a small-scale society S Mathew American Economic Review 107 (5), 578-81, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| The punishment that sustains cooperation is often coordinated and costly S Bowles, R Boyd, S Mathew, PJ Richerson Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (1), 20-21, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Solving the puzzle of human warfare requires an explanation of battle raids and cultural institutions M Zefferman, R Baldini, S Mathew PNAS 112 (20), 6243-6244, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
| Human Cooperation, Evolution of S Mathew International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition …, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| Cultural history, not ecological environment, is the main determinant of human behaviour S Mathew, C Perreault Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 283 (1826), DOI: 10.1098/rspb …, 2016 | 1 | 2016 |
| Cultural Variations in the Curse of Knowledge: the Curse of Knowledge Bias in Children from a Nomadic Pastoralist Culture in Kenya S Ghrear, M Chudek, K Fung, S Mathew, SAJ Birch Journal of Cognition and Culture 19 (3-4), 366-384, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Situating anthropological genetics within local beliefs in pastoral Kenya C Handley, S Mathew, A Taravella, A Stone, MAW Sayres AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 165, 111-111, 2018 | | 2018 |
Robert BoydProfessor of Anthropology, Arizona State UniversityVerified email at asu.edu
