Eric A. Smith (PhD 1980, Cornell)
Research Interests:
Behavioral ecology, ecological demography; arctic North America, indigenous
Australia
"I have recently conducted research on the interrelationships between
foraging, status politics, and reproductive strategies among Meriam in the
Torres Strait Islands of northern Australia. My current research project
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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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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