Eric A. Smith (PhD 1980, Cornell)
Research Interests:
Behavioral ecology, ecological demography, evolution of cooperation; hunter-gatherers
"I have conducted field research on the interrelationships between foraging, status politics, and reproductive strategies among Meriam in the Torres Strait Islands of northern Australia as well as on the ecology and economics of foraging among Canadian Inuit. My current research focus involves using evolutionary game theory and simulation modeling to try and understand the emergence of institutionalized inequality in small-scale egalitarian societies."
Personal Web
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Selected Publications:
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2010
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Smith, Eric Alden, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Michael Gurven, Tom Hertz, and Mary K. Shenk. Production systems, inheritance, and inequality in premodern societies: Conclusions. Current Anthropology 51(1): 85-94.
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2007
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Smith, Eric Alden and Jung-Kyoo Choi. The emergence of inequality in small-scale societies: Simple scenarios and agent-based simulations. In The Model-based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems, ed. T. Kohler and S. van der Leeuw, pp 105-119 & 241-244. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
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2005
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Smith, Eric Alden and Rebecca Bliege Bird . Costly signaling and cooperative behavior. 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: MIT Press.
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2004
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Smith, Eric Alden. Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success? Human Nature 15(4):342-363
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2003
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Smith, Eric Alden. Human cooperation: perspectives from behavioral ecology. In The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, ed. P. Hammerstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press., pp 401-427.
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2003
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Smith, Eric Alden,
Rebecca Bliege Bird, and Douglas W. Bird. The benefits of costly signaling:
Meriam turtle-hunters. Behavioral Ecology 14(1):116-126.
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2000
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Smith, Eric Alden and
Mark Wishnie. Conservation and subsistence in small-scale societies. Annual
Review of Anthropology 29:493-524.
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