| Culture and the Evolutionary Process R Boyd, P Richerson University of Chicago Press, 1988 | 9273 | 1988 |
| Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution PJ Richerson, R Boyd University of Chicago press, 2008 | 5343 | 2008 |
| The evolution of altruistic punishment R Boyd, H Gintis, S Bowles, PJ Richerson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (6), 3531-3535, 2003 | 1813 | 2003 |
| The origin and evolution of cultures R Boyd, PJ Richerson Oxford University Press, 2005 | 1609 | 2005 |
| Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups R Boyd, PJ Richerson Ethology and sociobiology 13 (3), 171-195, 1992 | 1492 | 1992 |
| The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations S Bowles, H Gintis Theoretical population biology 65 (1), 17-28, 2004 | 870 | 2004 |
| The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation R Boyd, PJ Richerson, J Henrich Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (Supplement 2), 10918-10925, 2011 | 820 | 2011 |
| The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups R Boyd, PJ Richerson Journal of theoretical Biology 132 (3), 337-356, 1988 | 814 | 1988 |
| Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers R McElreath, R Boyd, PJ Richerson Current anthropology 44 (1), 122-130, 2003 | 636 | 2003 |
| Culture and the evolution of human cooperation R Boyd, PJ Richerson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 618 | 2009 |
| Why culture is common, but cultural evolution is rare R Boyd, PJ Richerson Proceedings-British Academy 88, 77-94, 1996 | 609 | 1996 |
| Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? A climate change hypothesis PJ Richerson, R Boyd, RL Bettinger American Antiquity 66 (3), 387-411, 2001 | 551 | 2001 |
| Group beneficial norms can spread rapidly in a structured population R Boyd, PJ Richerson Journal of theoretical biology 215 (3), 287-296, 2002 | 503 | 2002 |
| Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection?: An empirical test J Soltis, R Boyd, PJ Richerson Current anthropology 36 (3), 473-494, 1995 | 492 | 1995 |
| Anthropological applications of optimal foraging theory: a critical review [and comments and reply] EA Smith, RL Bettinger, CA Bishop, V Blundell, E Cashdan, MJ Casimir, ... Current Anthropology 24 (5), 625-651, 1983 | 485 | 1983 |
| The evolution of human ultra-sociality PJ Richerson, R Boyd Indoctrinability, ideology, and warfare: Evolutionary perspectives, 71-95, 1998 | 480 | 1998 |
| Why does culture increase human adaptability? R Boyd, PJ Richerson Ethology and sociobiology 16, 125-125, 1995 | 437 | 1995 |
| Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics PJ Richerson, R Boyd, J Henrich Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (Supplement 2), 8985-8992, 2010 | 418 | 2010 |
| The evolution of indirect reciprocity R Boyd, PJ Richerson Social Networks 11 (3), 213-236, 1989 | 381 | 1989 |
| Group selection among alternative evolutionarily stable strategies R Boyd, PJ Richerson Journal of theoretical biology 145 (3), 331-342, 1990 | 374 | 1990 |
