Christopher Boehm
Biographic Data
| ID | 77483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Boehm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Boehm |
| SIGNATURE | BOEHM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Kentucky University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4401-8838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 491 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Zoon Politikon
We provide the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of the hypothesis that the emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin line-together with environmental developments that made a diet of meat from large animals adaptive as well as cultural innovation in the form of fire and cooking-created a niche for hominins in which there was a high return for coordinated, cooperative scavenging and h…
Chapter 1 Prehistory
Retaliatory Violence in Human Prehistory
Journal Article Retaliatory Violence in Human Prehistory Get access Christopher Boehm Christopher Boehm * *1047 Camino San Acacio, Santa Fe, New Mexico, NM87505. [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 51, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 518-534, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr020 Published: 28 March 2011
Hierarchy in the Forest
Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong.The political flexibility of our sp…
Purposive Social Selection and the Evolution of Human Altruism
Normally scientific evolutionary approaches eschew any element of teleology in theorizing about how natural selection processes work, but social decisions pose a problem for this position. This article examines both positive and negative social sanctioning by human groups to show that purposive social selection at the level of phenotype can have parallel effects at the level of genotype, and that social control has shaped human genetic nature pro…
Interactions of Culture and Natural Selection among Pleistocene Hunters
Hierarchy in the Forest
Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature
The natural selection of altruistic traits
Unto Others
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 394 pp
Fieldwork in Familiar Places
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy. Michele M. Moody-Adams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 260 pp
Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply]
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply]
Population Politics
On Human Egalitarianism
Practice and Political Centralisation
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]
General/Theoretical Anthropology
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Sociobiology and Conflict
Manhood in the Making
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Lower-Level Teleology in Biological Evolution
A very special form of selection mechanics is explored, through which individuals belonging to species exhibiting some considerable cognitive sophistication key their behavior to outcomes that are directly germane to evolutionary micro-process (blind genetic variation-and-selective-retention), and make realistic decisions that enhance their own reproductive success. While both chimpanzees and nonliterate humans may modify their political behavior…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Biological Anthropology
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Practice and Political Centralisation
Blood revenge
Zoon Politikon
We provide the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of the hypothesis that the emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin line-together with environmental developments that made a diet of meat from large animals adaptive as well as cultural innovation in the form of fire and cooking-created a niche for hominins in which there was a high return for coordinated, cooperative scavenging and h…
Emergency Decisions, Cultural-Selection Mechanics, and Group Selection [and Comments and Reply]
On Human Egalitarianism
Rational Preselection from Hamadryas to Homo Sapiens
Normally biological and sociocultural evolution are explained in terms of blind variation and selective retention. This theory avoids intrinsic teleological fallacies but fails to account for a type of purposive behavior that is both distinctive and adaptively significant. The preselective hypothesis advanced here asserts that certain highly social animals including Homo sapiens are able to anticipate complex evolutionary problems. They may then …
Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature
Triangulating to human nature generally is accomplished by finding analogies with nonhuman primates, by searching for overt behaviors that are universal, by identification of emotions that can be correlated with physiological responses or brain rewards, or by use of appropriate selection scenarios. An additional method is proposed, which focuses on universally occurring psychological ambivalences as manifestations of competing tendencies in human…
Retaliatory Violence in Human Prehistory
Journal Article Retaliatory Violence in Human Prehistory Get access Christopher Boehm Christopher Boehm * *1047 Camino San Acacio, Santa Fe, New Mexico, NM87505. [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 51, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 518-534, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr020 Published: 28 March 2011
Purposive Social Selection and the Evolution of Human Altruism
Normally scientific evolutionary approaches eschew any element of teleology in theorizing about how natural selection processes work, but social decisions pose a problem for this position. This article examines both positive and negative social sanctioning by human groups to show that purposive social selection at the level of phenotype can have parallel effects at the level of genotype, and that social control has shaped human genetic nature pro…
The natural selection of altruistic traits
Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply]
A Fresh Outlook on Cultural Selection
Programmed to Learn: An Essay on the Evolution of Culture. H. Ronald Pulliam and Christopher Dunford.Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment. Virginia Abernethy
Exposing the moral self in Montenegro
Special epistemological problems arise when exotic systems of ideas and affects are studied by a foreigner. Difficulties in knowing "the native view" are discussed, and a partial solution for this epistemological problem is proposed. Exemplification through substantive semantic analysis of a key morality term used by Montenegrin tribesmen results in a descriptive portrait of the moral self. In contrast to certain trends in ethnographic semantics,…
Montenegrin Social Organization and Values
Lower-Level Teleology in Biological Evolution
A very special form of selection mechanics is explored, through which individuals belonging to species exhibiting some considerable cognitive sophistication key their behavior to outcomes that are directly germane to evolutionary micro-process (blind genetic variation-and-selective-retention), and make realistic decisions that enhance their own reproductive success. While both chimpanzees and nonliterate humans may modify their political behavior…
Unto Others
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 394 pp
Fieldwork in Familiar Places
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy. Michele M. Moody-Adams. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 260 pp
Execution within the clan as an extreme form of ostracism
Can Social Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Both Be Ascribed to the Same Causal Forces
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"On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition"
"On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition"
Rational Preselection from Hamadryas to Homo Sapiens
Normally biological and sociocultural evolution are explained in terms of blind variation and selective retention. This theory avoids intrinsic teleological fallacies but fails to account for a type of purposive behavior that is both distinctive and adaptively significant. The preselective hypothesis advanced here asserts that certain highly social animals including Homo sapiens are able to anticipate complex evolutionary problems. They may then …
Exposing the moral self in Montenegro
Special epistemological problems arise when exotic systems of ideas and affects are studied by a foreigner. Difficulties in knowing "the native view" are discussed, and a partial solution for this epistemological problem is proposed. Exemplification through substantive semantic analysis of a key morality term used by Montenegrin tribesmen results in a descriptive portrait of the moral self. In contrast to certain trends in ethnographic semantics,…
General/Theoretical
A Fresh Outlook on Cultural Selection
Programmed to Learn: An Essay on the Evolution of Culture. H. Ronald Pulliam and Christopher Dunford.Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment. Virginia Abernethy
Blood revenge
Can Social Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Both Be Ascribed to the Same Causal Forces
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Montenegrin Social Organization and Values
Execution within the clan as an extreme form of ostracism
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Feuding, Conflict and Banditry In Nineteenth‐Century Corsica. STEPHEN Wilson
Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature
Triangulating to human nature generally is accomplished by finding analogies with nonhuman primates, by searching for overt behaviors that are universal, by identification of emotions that can be correlated with physiological responses or brain rewards, or by use of appropriate selection scenarios. An additional method is proposed, which focuses on universally occurring psychological ambivalences as manifestations of competing tendencies in human…
Biological Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]
Lower-Level Teleology in Biological Evolution
A very special form of selection mechanics is explored, through which individuals belonging to species exhibiting some considerable cognitive sophistication key their behavior to outcomes that are directly germane to evolutionary micro-process (blind genetic variation-and-selective-retention), and make realistic decisions that enhance their own reproductive success. While both chimpanzees and nonliterate humans may modify their political behavior…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Sociobiology and Conflict
Manhood in the Making
Practice and Political Centralisation
Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]
General/Theoretical Anthropology
On Human Egalitarianism
Sociology (28 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Biology (11 works)