“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies
- J. Henrich, R. Boyd, D. Tracer
- EconomicsBehavioral and Brain Sciences
- 1 December 2005
A cross-cultural study of behavior in ultimatum, public goods, and dictator games in a range of small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of economic and cultural conditions found the canonical model – based on self-interest – fails in all of the societies studied.
The Sustainability of Subsistence Hunting in the Neotropics
- M. Alvard, J. Robinson, K. Redford, H. Kaplan
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 1997
Hunting is an important component of native subsistence strategies in Amazonia. It is also a serious threat to biodiversity in some areas. We present data on the faunal harvests of two native…
Testing the “ecologically noble savage” hypothesis: Interspecific prey choice by Piro hunters of Amazonian Peru
- M. Alvard
- Environmental Science
- 1 December 1993
Native peoples have often been portrayed as natural conservationists, living in “harmony” with their environment. It is argued that this perspective is a result of an imprecise definition of…
Rousseau ’ s Whale Hunt ? Coordination among Big-Game Hunters
- M. Alvard, David A. Nolin
- Economics
- 2002
In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner’s dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio-ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in…
The adaptive nature of culture
- M. Alvard
- Biology
- 2003
It is particularly ironic that in spite of a growing awareness among evolutionary anthropologists that culture is critical for understanding the human condition, the topic of culture has fallen out of favor among many “cultural” anthropologists.
Rousseau’s Whale Hunt?
- M. Alvard, David A. Nolin
- EconomicsCurrent Anthropology
- 1 August 2002
In spite of its common use as a tool for examining cooperation, the prisoner’s dilemma game does not conform to the reality of many socio‐ecological contexts. Situations in which people engage in…
Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia
- M. Alvard
- BiologyHuman Nature
- 1 June 2003
Test if strict biological kinship or lineage membership is more important for explaining the organization of cooperative hunting parties in Lamalera, Indonesia, shows that genetic kinship explains little of the hunters’ affiliations independent of lineage identity.
Shotguns and sustainable hunting in the Neotropics
- M. Alvard
- Political ScienceOryx
- 1 January 1995
The shift to the use of shotguns from traditional hunting weapons has often been mentioned as one of the factors contributing to over-hunting in the tropics. It has also been argued that indigenous…
Evolutionary ecology and resource conservation
- M. Alvard
- Biology
- 1998
The initial evolutionary approach to resource conservation has contrasted predictions generated from optimal foraging theory with predictions based on assumptions of conservation, and this work uses evolutionary theory to understand human foraging behavior.
Deferred harvests: The transition from hunting to animal husbandry
This work compares the returns from hunting and husbanding strategies as a function of prey body size, and concludes that hunting and meat-only husbanding provide the same return for larger animals.
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