Stanley A West
Biographic Data
| ID | 226476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley A West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley A |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2152-3153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Replication of experiments and the canonisation of incorrect conclusions
We are in the middle of a revolution over how to collect, analyse and interpret results in the human behavioural sciences. A key issue is to determine the extent to which experimental results are repeatable. However, if the experiment being replicated lacks the appropriate controls or null hypotheses, then replication of experiments can lead to the canonisation of incorrect conclusions. Experiments are required that allow a strong possibility to …
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games
The Evolution of Altruism in Humans
Humans are an intensely social species, frequently performing costly behaviors that benefit others. Efforts to solve the evolutionary puzzle of altruism have a lengthy history, and recent years have seen many important advances across a range of disciplines. Here we bring together this interdisciplinary body of research and review the main theories that have been proposed to explain human prosociality, with an emphasis on kinship, reciprocity, in…
Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both ultimate and proximate explanations. Put briefly, ultimate explanations are concerned with why a behavior exists, and proximate explanations are concerned with how it works. These two types of explanation are complementary and the distinction is critical to evolutionary explanation. We are concerned that they have become conflated in some areas of the evolutionary literature on human behavior. …
Cooperation in humans
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans
Social semantics
From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness consequences for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual. Over the last 43 years, a huge theoretical and empirical literature has developed on this topic. However, progress is often hindered by poor communication between scientists, with different people using the same term to mean different things, or different terms to mean the same …
Sex Ratios
Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacte…
The Chicano Experience
Environmental protection in Saudi Arabia
From Labor Camps to Chicana Feminism
Applied Anthropology
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Social impact assessment
U. S. Department of Transportation. Final Environmental Impact Assessment for Darien Gap Highway from Tocumen, Panama, to Rio Leon, Colombia. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Transportation, 1974. xvii + 203 pp. Tables, figures, and appendices. (Available gratis from USDOT.) Kurt Finsterbusch. A Methodology for Analyzing Social Impacts of Public Policies. Vienna, Virginia: Braddock, Dunn, and McDonald, 1975. ix + 52 pp. Tables, illustrations…
The Evolution of Altruism in Humans
Humans are an intensely social species, frequently performing costly behaviors that benefit others. Efforts to solve the evolutionary puzzle of altruism have a lengthy history, and recent years have seen many important advances across a range of disciplines. Here we bring together this interdisciplinary body of research and review the main theories that have been proposed to explain human prosociality, with an emphasis on kinship, reciprocity, in…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games
Social impact assessment
U. S. Department of Transportation. Final Environmental Impact Assessment for Darien Gap Highway from Tocumen, Panama, to Rio Leon, Colombia. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Transportation, 1974. xvii + 203 pp. Tables, figures, and appendices. (Available gratis from USDOT.) Kurt Finsterbusch. A Methodology for Analyzing Social Impacts of Public Policies. Vienna, Virginia: Braddock, Dunn, and McDonald, 1975. ix + 52 pp. Tables, illustrations…
Social impact assessment
U. S. Department of Transportation. Final Environmental Impact Assessment for Darien Gap Highway from Tocumen, Panama, to Rio Leon, Colombia. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Transportation, 1974. xvii + 203 pp. Tables, figures, and appendices. (Available gratis from USDOT.) Kurt Finsterbusch. A Methodology for Analyzing Social Impacts of Public Policies. Vienna, Virginia: Braddock, Dunn, and McDonald, 1975. ix + 52 pp. Tables, illustrations…
Systems Theory in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
When the first Anthropology Today panel met in the early 1950s, modern systems theory barely glimmered on the horizon. Since then, an entire generation of scholars has matured in an intellectual atmosphere which focuses on systemic relationships in social life. In the fall of 1977 a new World Anthropology conference was convened. One panel was devoted to identifying major research foci and continuing problems in systems theory in anthropology. Fi…
Applied Anthropology
The Chicano Experience
Environmental protection in Saudi Arabia
From Labor Camps to Chicana Feminism
Sex Ratios
Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacte…
Social semantics
From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness consequences for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual. Over the last 43 years, a huge theoretical and empirical literature has developed on this topic. However, progress is often hindered by poor communication between scientists, with different people using the same term to mean different things, or different terms to mean the same …
Cooperation in humans
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans
Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
To properly understand behavior, we must obtain both ultimate and proximate explanations. Put briefly, ultimate explanations are concerned with why a behavior exists, and proximate explanations are concerned with how it works. These two types of explanation are complementary and the distinction is critical to evolutionary explanation. We are concerned that they have become conflated in some areas of the evolutionary literature on human behavior. …
The Evolution of Altruism in Humans
Humans are an intensely social species, frequently performing costly behaviors that benefit others. Efforts to solve the evolutionary puzzle of altruism have a lengthy history, and recent years have seen many important advances across a range of disciplines. Here we bring together this interdisciplinary body of research and review the main theories that have been proposed to explain human prosociality, with an emphasis on kinship, reciprocity, in…
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games
Replication of experiments and the canonisation of incorrect conclusions
We are in the middle of a revolution over how to collect, analyse and interpret results in the human behavioural sciences. A key issue is to determine the extent to which experimental results are repeatable. However, if the experiment being replicated lacks the appropriate controls or null hypotheses, then replication of experiments can lead to the canonisation of incorrect conclusions. Experiments are required that allow a strong possibility to …
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution
Biology (8 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)