Eric Alden Smith
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Recent Articles
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Smith E, Smith J, Codding B
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2023 Jun;
378(1883):20220287.
PMID: 37381851
Inequality is increasingly recognized as a major problem in contemporary society. The causes and consequences of inequality in wealth and power have long been central concerns in the social sciences,...
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Ross C, Hooper P, Smith J, Jaeggi A, Smith E, Gavrilets S, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2023 May;
120(22):e2220124120.
PMID: 37216525
To address claims of human exceptionalism, we determine where humans fit within the greater mammalian distribution of reproductive inequality. We show that humans exhibit lower reproductive skew (i.e., inequality in...
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Smith E, Codding B
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2021 Mar;
118(13).
PMID: 33758100
Research examining institutionalized hierarchy tends to focus on chiefdoms and states, while its emergence among small-scale societies remains poorly understood. Here, we test multiple hypotheses for institutionalized hierarchy, using environmental...
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Ross C, Jaeggi A, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Smith J, Smith E, Gavrilets S, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2020 Oct;
287(1936):20202025.
PMID: 33023419
Inequality or skew in reproductive success (RS) is common across many animal species and is of long-standing interest to the study of social evolution. However, the measurement of inequality in...
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Smith E
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2016 Sep;
113(39):10739-41.
PMID: 27621471
No abstract available.
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Smith J, Gavrilets S, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Hooper P, Mouden C, Nettle D, et al.
Trends Ecol Evol
. 2015 Nov;
31(1):54-66.
PMID: 26552515
Leadership is an active area of research in both the biological and social sciences. This review provides a transdisciplinary synthesis of biological and social-science views of leadership from an evolutionary...
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Smith E
Hum Nat
. 2015 Jul;
15(4):343-64.
PMID: 26189411
Anecdotal evidence from many hunter-gatherer societies suggests that successful hunters experience higher prestige and greater reproductive success. Detailed quantitative data on these patterns are now available for five widely dispersed...
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Smith E, Gurven M, Borgerhoff Mulder M
Nature
. 2011 Mar;
471(7339):448.
PMID: 21430761
No abstract available.
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Smith E
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2011 Jan;
366(1563):325-32.
PMID: 21199837
Human populations have extraordinary capabilities for generating behavioural diversity without corresponding genetic diversity or change. These capabilities and their consequences can be grouped into three categories: strategic (or cognitive), ecological...
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Smith E, Hill K, Marlowe F, Nolin D, Wiessner P, Gurven M, et al.
Curr Anthropol
. 2010 Dec;
51(1):19-34.
PMID: 21151711
We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined broadly as factors that contribute to individual or...