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Name
  
Peter Richerson


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Education
  
University of California, Davis (1967)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Not by Genes Alone, The Origin and Evolution, Culture and the Evolution, Principles of Human Ecology, Origin and Evolution of Culture

Peter richerson cultural group selection and the origin of institutions and norms


Peter James Richerson (born October 11, 1943) is an American biologist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis.

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Life

Richerson studied entomology at UC Davis, earning his B.S. in 1965. In 1969, he completed his Ph.D. in zoology. After a postdoc and junior professorship, he was from 1977 until 2006 Professor of Environmental Science at UC Davis. He was a guest professor at University of California, Berkeley (1977–78), Duke University (1984), and the University of Exeter (2004). In 1991 he was a guest researcher at the Bielefeld University.

Work

Richerson's research interests include sociocultural evolution, human ecology and applied and tropical limnology.

Books (selected)

  • Richerson, Peter; Boyd, Robert (1985). Culture and the evolutionary Process. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226069338. 
  • Richerson, Peter; Boyd, Robert (2005). Not by genes alone: how culture transformed human evolution. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226712125. 
  • Richerson, Peter; Boyd, Robert (2005). The origin and evolution of cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019518145X. 
  • References

    Peter Richerson Wikipedia


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