Curriculum Vitae: Richard McElreath Personal Information Address Department of University of California–Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616, USA Telephone (530) 752-2660 Fax (530) 752-8885 Email [email protected] WWW arbeit.ucdavis.edu/mcelreath/ Born April 18, 1973 in Landstuhl, Germany Citizenship

Education and Employment July 2006–now Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis 2002–2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis 2001–2002 Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2001 Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Languages Fluent spoken and written modern standard Swahili; some Faroese

Professional Activities 2007– Strategic Planning Committee, UCD Letters and Science 2007– Field researcher, AHRC Culture and the Mind project 2006– Trainer, CLIMB (Collaborative Learning at the Intersection of Math and Biol- ogy) undergraduate training program, UC Davis 2006– Member and PhD advisor, Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis 2004– Chair, Human Ecology Area of Emphasis, Graduate Group in Ecology, UC Davis 2002– Member, Animal Behavior Graduate Group, UC Davis 2001– Member, Graduate Group in Ecology, UC Davis

1 Publications PDF copies of most of my publications are available on my website, at http://arbeit.ucdavis.edu/mcelreath/ Book Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed. University of Chicago Press, 2007. Articles Frank W. Marlowe, J. Colette Berbesque, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alexan- der Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jean Ensminger, Michael Gurven, Ed- wins Gwako, Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Richard McElreath, and David Tracer. More ‘altruistic’ punishment in larger societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275:587–590, 2008. C Efferson, Lalive, P J Richerson, R McElreath, and M Lubell. Conformists and mavericks: The empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29:56–64, 2008. Richard McElreath and Pontus Strimling. When natural selection favors learn- ing from parents. Current Anthropology, in press. Charles Efferson, Masanori Takezawa, and Richard McElreath. New methods in quantitative ethnography: Economic experiments and variation in the price of equality. Current Anthropology, 48:912–919, 2007. C Cordes, P J Richerson, R McElreath, and P. Strimling. A naturalistic ap- proach to the theory of the firm: The role of cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, in press. L. Newson, T. Postmes, S. E. G. Lea, P. J. Richerson, and R. McElreath. Influences on communication about reproduction: The cultural evolution of low fertility. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28:199–210, 2007. C. T. Dawes, J. H. Fowler, T. Johnson, R. McElreath, and O. Smirnov. Egali- tarian motives in humans. , 446:794–796, 2007. Charles Efferson, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath, Mark Lubell, Ed Ed- sten, Timothy M. Waring, Brian Paciotti, and William Baum. Learning, pro- ductivity, noise: An experimental study of cultural transmission on the Bolivian Altiplano. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28:11–17, 2007. Richard McElreath and Pontus Strimling. How noisy information and individual asymmetries can make ”personality” an adaptation: A simple model. Animal Behaviour, 72:1135–1139, 2006. Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Bar- rett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, and John Ziker. Costly punishment across human societies. Science, 312:1767–1770, 2006.

2 Robert Bettinger, Bruce Winterhalder, and Richard McElreath. A simple model of technological intensification. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33(4):538– 545, 2006. Judy Stamps, Richard McElreath, and Perri Eason. Alternative models of conspecific attraction in flies and crabs. Behavioral Ecology, 16:974–980, 2005. Richard McElreath, Mark Lubell, Peter J. Richerson, Timothy Waring, William Baum, Edward Edsten, Charles Efferson, and Brian Paciotti. Applying evolu- tionary models to the laboratory study of social learning. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26:483–508, 2005. Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herb Gintis, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Na- talie Smith Henrich, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank Marlowe, John Q. Patton, and David Tracer. Economic man in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28:795–855, 2005. Richard McElreath. Social learning and the maintenance of cultural variation: An evolutionary model and data from East Africa. American Anthropologist, 106(2):308–321, 2004. Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath. The evolution of cultural evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 12:123–135, 2003. Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, and Peter J. Richerson. Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers. Current Anthropology, 44(1):122–129, 2003. Richard McElreath. Reputation and the evolution of conflict. Journal of The- oretical Biology, 220(3):345–357, 2003. Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath. Are peasants risk averse decision- makers? Current Anthropology, 43(1):172–181, 2002. Joseph Soltis and Richard McElreath. Can females gain additional paternal investment by mating with multiple males? a game theoretic approach. The American Naturalist, 158(5):1519–529, 2001. Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herb Gintis, and Richard McElreath. In search of homo oeconomicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small scale societies. American Economic Review, 91(2):73– 78, 2001. Chapters Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, , Andreas Gl¨ockner, Peter Hammerstein, Robert Kurzban, Stefan Magen, Peter J. Richerson, Arthur Rob- son, and Jeffery R. Stevens. Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions. In C Engel and W Singer, editors, Better Than Con- scious? Implications for Performance and Institutional Analysis, Str¨ungmann Forum Report 1, chapter 15, pages 302–318. MIT Press, in press.

3 J. Henrich and R. McElreath. Dual inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution. In R. Dunbar and L. Barrett, editors, Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, chapter 38. Oxford Univ Press, 2007. R. McElreath and J. Henrich. Modeling cultural evolution. In R. Dunbar and L. Barrett, editors, Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, chapter 39. Oxford Univ Press, 2007. J. Eerkens, R. L. Bettinger, and R. McElreath. Cultural transmission, phylo- genetics, and the archaeological record. In C. Lipo, M. J. O’Brien, M. Collard, and S. J. Shennan, editors, Mapping Our Ancestors, pages 169–183. Aldine- Transaction, 2006. R. McElreath, T.H. Clutton-Brock, E. Fehr, D.M.T. Fessler, E.H. Hagen, P. Hammerstein, M. Kosfeld, M. Milinski, J. Silk, J. Tooby, and M.I. Wilson. The role of cognition and emotion in cooperation. In P. Hammerstein, editor, The Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, pages 125–152. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003. R. McElreath. Community structure, mobility and the strength of norms in an african society, the sangu of . In J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, and H. Gintis, editors, Foundations of Human Social- ity: Ethnography and Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies, pages 335–355. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. R. McElreath and C. Camerer. Appendix: Estimating risk-aversion. In J. Hen- rich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, and H. Gintis, editors, Foun- dations of Human Sociality: Ethnography and Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies, pages 436–438. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C.F. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis, and R. McEl- reath. Overview and synthesis. In J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, and H. Gintis, editors, Foundations of Human Sociality: Ethnography and Experiments in 15 Small-scale Societies, pages 8–54. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Comments Richard McElreath, Barney Luttbeg, Sean P. Fogarty, Tomas Brodin, and An- drew Sih. Communication arising: Evolution of animal personalities. Nature, 450:E5–E6, 2007. R. McElreath. Perspectives on diamond’s collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed. Current Anthropology, 46:S71–S90, 2005. Gerd Gigerenzer and Richard McElreath. Social intelligence in games. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 159(1):188–194, 2003. Joseph Henrich and Richard McElreath. On risk-prone peasants. Current An- thropology, 43(5):787–789, 2002.

4 Grants and Awards 2007 Elected 2007–2012 UCD Chancellor’s Fellow, $25,000 research award. 2005 Small grant in aid of research, Committee on Research, UC Davis, $2000. 2005 Studying cultural dynamics in laboratory microsocieties, NSF, ($140,000; Co- PIs Peter J. Richerson and Mark Lubell) 2004 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models: Studying cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties, NSF, ($80,000; Co-PIs Peter J. Richerson and Mark Lubell) 2003 Junior faculty research improvement grant, $3000. 2002-2005 NSF grant, Foundations of human sociality, supporting ethnographic work ($8500) 2001-2002 Max Planck Institute post-doctoral fellowship, MPI for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin 2000-2001 Chancellors dissertation year fellowship, UCLA 2000 MacArthur Foundation grant in experimental economics, $19070 2000 International Studies and Overseas Programs (Ford Foundation) doctoral re- search grant, $5000 1998 MacArthur Foundation grant for economic field research, $8000 1996 Pre-doctoral research grant, International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP), UCLA, $6000 1995 National Science Foundation pre-doctoral research grant, $5000

Courses Taught Anthropology 1, Human evolutionary biology. Introduction to modern evo- lutionary theory, primate sociobiology, the human fossil record, and modern human variation. Anthropology 105, The Evolution of Societies and Cultures. Review of theories of cultural and social evolution and the empirical phenomena they are meant to explain. Anthropology 122A, Economic anthropology. Survey of the breadth of human production systems and theories to account for decision-making in each. Sub- stantial content on modern micro-economics and its critiques. Anthropology 200, History of Anthropology. Survey of 19th and 20th Century thought in (mostly) socio-cultural anthropology and social theory. Meant to get graduate students prepared to understand their field(s) in the context of what has come before them. Anthropology/Animal Behavior 261, Modeling the evolution of social behavior. Introduction to the mathematical tools biologists and social scientists use to

5 model the evolution of social behavior in humans and other animals. Uses my book, co-authored with Rob Boyd, Mathematical Models of Social Evolution. Research Experience 2007 Continuing pilot fieldwork in Faroe Islands, Denmark 2006 Pilot fieldwork in Faroe Islands, Denmark 2003-2004 Ethnographic and economic research in Tanzania (funded by NSF) 2002 Continued ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania (funded by NSF and Max Planck Society) 2000 Ethnographic fieldwork, Tanzania (funded by Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation) 1999-2000 Statistics consultant, Department of Anthropology, UCLA 1999-2000 Data analyst, MacArthur Foundation Preferences Network experimental eco- nomics project (paid position) 1998 Ethnographic fieldwork, Tanzania: Economic preferences in Usangu, Tanzania (funded by MacArthur Foundation Network grant) 1997 Ethnographic fieldwork, Tanzania (funded by NSF)

Recent Presentations 2007 “Should children imitate their parents?,” Human Ecology and Environmental Policy Symposium, UCD 2006 Invited discussant, Culture & Mind workshop held in Estoril, Portugal 2006 “The evolution of cultural evolution,” invited talk at Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium 2006, hosted by National Academy of Sciences 2005 “Measuring social influence,” invited talk at Animal Culture conference at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 2005 “Studying social learning in the laboratory,” 2005 Human Behavior and Evolu- tion Society conference, Austin, Texas 2005 “Evolution of Cultural Evolution,” with Joe Henrich, 2005 Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, Austin, Texas 2005 “Why are humans so (un)cooperative?”, Center for Population Biology, UCD 2005 “Modeling altruistic behavior in experimental games”, NSF Cross-cultural Ex- perimental Economics conference, CalTech 2005 “Applying Evolutionary Models to the Laboratory Study of Social Learning”, invited talk to UCLA Behavior, Culture and Evolution series 2004 “Strategies for social learning”, invited speaker for Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Max Planck Institute for Human De- velopment, Berlin

6 2004 “Rapid adaptation as the human niche”, Human Induced Rapid Environmental Change conference, UC Davis 2004 “Explaining variation in human cooperation”, invited talk for The Challenge of Cooperation speaker series, Department of Environmental Science and Policy and Department of Agronomy, UC Davis

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