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1. Statistical rethinking
: a Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan
by McElreath, Richard, 1973
2016, Chapman & Hall/CRC texts in statistical science series, ISBN 1482253445, xvii, 469 pages
Bayesian statistical decision theory | R (Computer program language)
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2. Full Text Sizing up human brain evolution
by McElreath, Richard
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 05/2018, Volume 557, Issue 7706, pp. 496 - 497
An innovative computational analysis of factors that might have influenced human brain evolution suggests that ecological, rather than social, factors had a... 
Anthropology | Evolution | INTELLIGENCE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | Human evolution | Brain | Models | Natural history | Competition | Animal reproduction | Hypotheses | Skills | Cooperation | Metabolism
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3. Mathematical models of social evolution
: a guide for the perplexed
by McElreath, Richard, 1973 and Boyd, Robert, 1948
2007, ISBN 0226558274, xiii, 414
Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students... 
Social behavior in animals | Mathematical models | Sociology, Social Studies | Social evolution in animals
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4. Full Text Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
by Abbot, Patrick and Abe, Jun and Alcock, John and Alizon, Samuel and Alpeinha, Joao A. C and Andersson, Malte and Ane, Jean-Baptiste and van Baalen, Minus and Balloux, Francois and Balshine, Sigal and Barton, Nick and Beukeboom, Leo W and Biernaskie, Jay M and Bilde, Trine and Borgia, Gerald and Breed, Michael and Brown, Sam and Bshary, Redouan and Buckling, Angus and Burley, Nancy T and Burton-Chellew, Max N and Cant, Michael A and Chapuisat, Michel and Charnov, Eric L and Clutton-Brock, Tim and Cockburn, Anew and Cole, Blaine J and Colegrave, Nick and Cosmides, Leda and Couzin, Iain D and Coyne, Jerry A and Creel, Scott and Crespi, Bernard and Curry, Robert L and Dall, Sasha R. X and Day, Troy and Dickinson, Janis L and Dugatkin, Lee Alan and El Mouden, Claire and Emlen, Stephen T and Evans, Jay and Ferriere, Regis and Field, Jeremy and Foitzik, Susanne and Foster, Kevin and Foster, William A and Fox, Charles W and Gadau, Juergen and Gandon, Sylvain and Gardner, Andy and Gardner, Michael G and Getty, Thomas and Goodisman, Michael A. D and Grafen, Alan and Grosberg, Rick and Grozinger, Christina M and Gouyon, Pierre-Henri and Gwynne, Darryl and Harvey, Paul H and Hatchwell, Ben J and Heinze, Juergen and Helantera, Heikki and Helms, Ken R and Hill, Kim and Jiricny, Natalie and Johnstone, Rufus A and Kacelnik, Alex and Kiers, E. Toby and Kokko, Hanna and Komdeur, Jan and Korb, Judith and Kronauer, Daniel and Kuemmerli, Rolf and Lehmann, Laurent and Linksvayer, Timothy A and Lion, Sebastien and Lyon, Bruce and Marshall, James A. R and McElreath, Richard and Michalakis, Yannis and Michod, Richard E and Mock, Douglas and Monnin, Thibaud and Montgomerie, Robert and Moore, Allen J and Mueller, Ulrich G and Noe, Ronald and Okasha, Samir and Pamilo, Pekka and Parker, Geoff A and Pedersen, Jes S and Pen, Ido and Pfennig, David and Queller, David C and Rankin, Daniel J and Reece, Sarah E and Reeve, Hudson K and Reuter, Max and Roberts, Gilbert and Robson, Simon K. A and ...
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 03/2011, Volume 471, Issue 7339, pp. E1 - E4
Arising from M. A. Nowak, C. E. Tarnita & E. O. Wilson 466, 1057-1062 (2010); Nowak et al. reply. Nowak et al. argue that inclusive fitness theory has been of... 
BEHAVIOUR | EVOLUTION | MODEL | KIN SELECTION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | Genetics, Population | Reproducibility of Results | Humans | Selection, Genetic | Cooperative Behavior | Male | Heredity | Altruism | Sex Ratio | Biological Evolution | Game Theory | Phenotype | Animals | Genetic Fitness | Models, Biological | Female | Analysis | Adaptation (Biology) | Natural selection | Evolution | Research | Behavior | Mortality | Empirical analysis | Evolutionary | Fitness | Life Sciences | Populations and Evolution | Microbiology and Parasitology | Modeling and Simulation | Computer Science | Biodiversity | Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
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5. Full Text Multinomial analysis of behavior: statistical methods
by Koster, Jeremy and McElreath, Richard
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, ISSN 0340-5443, 9/2017, Volume 71, Issue 9, pp. 1 - 14
Behavioral ecologists frequently use observational methods, such as instantaneous scan sampling, to record the behavior of animals at discrete moments in time.... 
Life Sciences | Generalized linear mixed models | Behavioral Sciences | Zoology | Multinomial logistic regression | Scan sampling | Focal observations | RStan | Animal Ecology | LIFE-SPAN | PRACTICAL GUIDE | SIZE | SEGREGATION | SOCIAL-DOMINANCE | MIXED-EFFECTS MODELS | EVOLUTION | ZOOLOGY | TIME ALLOCATION | ECOLOGY | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | TRADE-OFFS | Statistical methods | Models | Algorithms | Animal behavior | Analysis | Methods | Monte Carlo method | Emotional behavior | Statistical analysis | Computer simulation | Multilevel | Data processing | Ecological monitoring | Regression analysis | Statistics | Emotions | Methods Paper
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6. Full Text Replication, communication, and the population dynamics of scientific discovery
by McElreath, Richard and Smaldino, Paul E
PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 08/2015, Volume 10, Issue 8, p. e0136088
Many published research results are false (Ioannidis, 2005), and controversy continues over the roles of replication and publication policy in improving the... 
POWER | FILE DRAWER | FALSE | SOCIAL-SCIENCES | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | SIZE | Models, Theoretical | Reproducibility of Results | Humans | Publication Bias | Science | Research Design - standards | Biomedical Research - standards | Communication | Population Dynamics | Scientific discoveries | Science publishing | Research | Quality management | Psychology | Bias | Reliability aspects | Studies | Hypotheses | Researchers | Political science | Mathematical analysis | Sociology | Research methodology | Population biology | Population | Replication | Dynamic models | Population dynamics | Mathematical models | Chemical elements | Statistics - Other Statistics
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7. Full Text Disease dynamics and costly punishment can foster socially imposed monogamy
by Bauch, Chris T and McElreath, Richard
Nature Communications, ISSN 2041-1723, 04/2016, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 11219
Socially imposed monogamy in humans is an evolutionary puzzle because it requires costly punishment by those who impose the norm. Moreover, most societies... 
SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED DISEASES | CROSS-CULTURAL SAMPLE | EVOLUTION | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | CHLAMYDIA-TRACHOMATIS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | COITAL FREQUENCY | HIV-1 INFECTION | HUNTER-GATHERERS | MATING SYSTEM | PARTNERSHIP CONCURRENCY | Marriage - psychology | History, Ancient | Marriage - statistics & numerical data | Sexually Transmitted Diseases - psychology | History, 21st Century | History, Medieval | Humans | Models, Psychological | Male | Sexually Transmitted Diseases - epidemiology | Sexual Behavior - ethics | Sexual Behavior - psychology | Social Norms - history | Punishment - psychology | Computer Simulation | Adult | Female | Fertility - ethics | Sexual Partners - psychology
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8. Full Text Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
by Joseph Henrich and Jean Ensminger and Richard McElreath and Abigail Barr and Clark Barrett and Alexander Bolyanatz and Juan Camilo Cardenas and Michael Gurven and Edwins Gwako and Natalie Henrich and Carolyn Lesorogol and Frank Marlowe and David Tracer and John Ziker
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 3/2010, Volume 327, Issue 5972, pp. 1480 - 1484
Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions are puzzling. The evolutionary mechanisms associated with kinship... 
Population mean | Social evolution | Social psychology | Islam | Communities | Social interaction | Religion | Evolution | Christianity | Fairness | Research Article | INDIRECT RECIPROCITY | SOCIETIES | PREFERENCES | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | DEFECTORS | CONSEQUENCES | COOPERATION | SOCIAL NORMS | Punishment | Residence Characteristics | Cultural Evolution | Humans | Cooperative Behavior | Commerce | Male | Socioeconomic Factors | Cross-Cultural Comparison | Social Behavior | Population Density | Adult | Female | Games, Experimental | Markets (Economics) | Kinship | Research | Society | Behavioral sciences | Sociology | Cultural anthropology
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9. Full Text Egalitarian motives in humans
by Fowler, James H and Smirnov, Oleg and Johnson, Tim and McElreath, Richard and Dawes, Christopher T
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 04/2007, Volume 446, Issue 7137, pp. 794 - 796
Participants in laboratory games are often willing to alter others' incomes at a cost to themselves, and this behaviour has the effect of promoting... 
PUNISHMENT | RECIPROCITY | COOPERATION | COMPETITION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | Group Processes | Motivation | Punishment - psychology | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Humans | Income | Cooperative Behavior | Reward | Emotions | Social Justice - psychology | Social sciences | Socioeconomic factors | Cooperation | Group dynamics | Behavior | Game theory | Computer & video games
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10. Full Text Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies
by Bailey R. House and Joan B. Silk and Joseph Henrich and H. Clark Barrett and Brooke A. Scelza and Adam H. Boyette and Barry S. Hewlett and Richard McElreath and Stephen Laurence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 9/2013, Volume 110, Issue 36, pp. 14586 - 14591
Humans are an exceptionally cooperative species, but there is substantial variation in the extent of cooperation across societies. Understanding the sources of... 
Social environment | Child development | Prosocial behavior | Cooperation | Childhood | Multilevel models | Adults | Children | Modeling | Age | Development | Population differences | Gene-culture coevolution | development | EVOLUTION | gene-culture coevolution | PERSPECTIVE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | PUNISHMENT | FAIRNESS | COOPERATION | population differences | ALTRUISM | Ecuador | Fiji | United States | Humans | Child, Preschool | Cooperative Behavior | Cultural Diversity | Logistic Models | Male | Social Behavior | Namibia | Adolescent | Adult | Female | Central African Republic | Australia | Child | Interpersonal Relations | Multiculturalism | Psychological aspects | Social psychology | Research | Social aspects | Biological Sciences | Social Sciences
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11. Full Text The natural selection of bad science
by Smaldino, Paul E and McElreath, Richard
Royal Society Open Science, ISSN 2054-5703, 09/2016, Volume 3, Issue 9, p. 160384
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that... 
Campbell’s law | Replication | Incentives | Cultural evolution | Metascience | Statistical power | replication | Campbell's Law | PUBLICATION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | PSYCHOLOGICAL-RESEARCH | TRUTH | incentives | statistical power | CONSEQUENCES | FALSE | INDEX | SOCIAL-SCIENCES | metascience | cultural evolution | CULTURAL-EVOLUTION
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12. Full Text Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate
by Barrett, Brendan J and McElreath, Richard L and Perry, Susan E
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8452, 06/2017, Volume 284, Issue 1856, pp. 20170358 - 20170358
The type and variety of learning strategies used by individuals to acquire behaviours in the wild are poorly understood, despite the presence of behavioural... 
Extractive foraging | Cebus | Behavioural traditions | Pay-off bias | Social learning | Cultural transmission | extractive foraging | CAPUCINUS | BEHAVIOR | pay-off-bias | STRATEGIES | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | behavioural traditions | EVOLUTION | CONFORMITY | NORWAY RATS | BIOLOGY | social learning | ECOLOGY | SELECTION | CAPUCHIN MONKEYS CEBUS | CHIMPANZEES | cultural transmission | Animals | Social Behavior | Philippines | Bayes Theorem | Social Learning | Appetitive Behavior | Cebus - physiology | Learning | Taxa | Population (statistical) | Statistical analysis | Traditions | Social discrimination learning | Multilevel | Innovations | Diffusion | Bayesian analysis | Age | Age composition | Behaviour | pay-off bias | 1001
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13. Full Text Costly Punishment across Human Societies
by Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath and Abigail Barr and Jean Ensminger and Clark Barrett and Alexander Bolyanatz and Juan Camilo Cardenas and Michael Gurven and Edwins Gwako and Natalie Henrich and Carolyn Lesorogol and Frank Marlowe and David Tracer and John Ziker
Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 6/2006, Volume 312, Issue 5781, pp. 1767 - 1770
Recent behavioral experiments aimed at understanding the evolutionary foundations of human cooperation have suggested that a willingness to engage in costly... 
Biological altruism | Population mean | Population growth | Social behavior | Humans | Cooperation | Cultural anthropology | Evolution | Research Articles | Altruism | Wages | ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT | EVOLUTION | PERSPECTIVE | ULTIMATUM GAME | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | NORMS | NEURAL BASIS | FAIRNESS | ENFORCEMENT | RECIPROCITY | COOPERATION | Punishment | South America | Age Factors | Cultural Evolution | United States | Africa | Cooperative Behavior | Male | Educational Status | Socioeconomic Factors | Biological Evolution | Regression Analysis | Cross-Cultural Comparison | Social Behavior | Melanesia | Sex Factors | Siberia | Female | Games, Experimental | Research | Human acts | Genetic psychology | Human behavior | Analysis
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14. Full Text Interethnic Interaction, Strategic Bargaining Power, and the Dynamics of Cultural Norms
by Bunce, John Andrew and McElreath, Richard
Human Nature, ISSN 1045-6767, 12/2017, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 434
Social networks | Racially mixed people | Social aspects | Analysis
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15. Full Text When Natural Selection Favors Imitation of Parents
by Richard McElreath and Pontus Strimling and Mälardalens högskola and Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation
Current Anthropology, ISSN 0011-3204, 04/2008, Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 307 - 316
It is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural... 
Learning | Observational learning | Parents | Alleles | Expected values | Evolution | Behavior modeling | Recursion | Modeling | Empirical evidence | AFRICA | COEVOLUTION | EVOLUTION | ENVIRONMENT | EMERGENCE | ANTHROPOLOGY | CULTURAL TRANSMISSION | Parent and child | Interpersonal relations in children | Analysis | Methods | Natural selection | Anthropology | Parents & parenting | Behavior | Children & youth
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16. Full Text Culture Rather than Genes Provides Greater Scope for the Evolution of Large-Scale Human Prosociality
by Adrian V. Bell and Peter J. Richerson and Richard McElreath
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 10/2009, Volume 106, Issue 42, pp. 17671 - 17674
Whether competition among large groups played an important role in human social evolution is dependent on how variation, whether cultural or genetic, is... 
Biological altruism | Genetic variation | Humans | Cultural groups | Evolutionary genetics | Evolution | Population genetics | Human genetics | Behavioral genetics | Phenotypic traits | Cultural FST | Group selection | Altruism | Prosociality | POPULATION | prosociality | altruism | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | cultural FST | NORMS | group selection | HUMAN-BEHAVIOR | Biological Evolution | Ethnic Groups - genetics | Social Behavior | Selection, Genetic | Models, Psychological | Ethnopsychology | Models, Genetic | Ethnic Groups - psychology | Culture | Paleontology | Evolutionary biology | Analysis | Behavior evolution | Cultural studies | Research | Methods | Competition | Genetic diversity | Differentiation | Natural selection | Biological Sciences | Social Sciences
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