Luke Glowacki
Biographic Data
| ID | 91291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Glowacki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Glowacki |
| SIGNATURE | GLOWACKI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8314-5904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Coalitions matter for both men and women: Insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter
The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with disparate meanings across communities of scholars, journalists, and the public, which has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this paper, we ask: what does Man the Hunter mean? We distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter. First, in the early-to-mid 20th century, popular writers propagated ideas of human evolution that focused on hunting, men, aggre…
Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance
Nomadic pastoralists are systematically underrepresented in the planning of health services and frequently missed by health campaigns due to their mobility. Previous studies have developed novel geospatial methods to address these challenges but rely on manual techniques that are too time and resource-intensive to scale on a national or regional level. To address this gap, we developed a computer vision-based approach to automatically locate acti…
Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025)
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: A comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter
The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals
"Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals." Religion, Brain & Behavior, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Universality and diversity in human song
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, and religiosity. There is more variation in musical behavior within soci…
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
Spoils division rules shape aggression between natural groups
Self-Interest and the Design of Rules
Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies
Leadership solves collective action problems in small-scale societies
Observation of leadership in small-scale societies offers unique insights into the evolution of human collective action and the origins of sociopolitical complexity. Using behavioural data from the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia and Nyangatom nomadic pastoralists of Ethiopia, we evaluate the traits of leaders and the contexts in which leadership becomes more institutional. We find that leaders tend to have more capital, in the form …
The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare
Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and War in Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers: Evaluating the Chimpanzee Model
Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and War in Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers: Evaluating the Chimpanzee Model
The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare
Self-Interest and the Design of Rules
Spoils division rules shape aggression between natural groups
Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025)
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and War in Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers: Evaluating the Chimpanzee Model
The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare
Leadership solves collective action problems in small-scale societies
Observation of leadership in small-scale societies offers unique insights into the evolution of human collective action and the origins of sociopolitical complexity. Using behavioural data from the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia and Nyangatom nomadic pastoralists of Ethiopia, we evaluate the traits of leaders and the contexts in which leadership becomes more institutional. We find that leaders tend to have more capital, in the form …
Self-Interest and the Design of Rules
Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies
Universality and diversity in human song
What is universal about music across human societies, and what varies? We built a corpus of ethnographic text on musical behavior from a representative sample of the world’s societies and a discography of audio recordings of the music itself. The ethnographic corpus reveals that music appears in every society observed; that variation in musical behavior is well-characterized by three dimensions, which capture the formality, arousal, and religiosi…
Spoils division rules shape aggression between natural groups
Universality and diversity in human song
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, and religiosity. There is more variation in musical behavior within soci…
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding …
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures
Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society
Norm violations and punishments across human societies
Punishments for norm violations are hypothesised to be a crucial component of the maintenance of cooperation in humans but are rarely studied from a comparative perspective. We investigated the degree to which punishment systems were correlated with socioecology and cultural history. We took data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample database and coded ethnographic documents from a sample of 131 largely non-industrial societies. We recorded whe…
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: A comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter
The controversial origins of war and peace: Apes, foragers, and human evolution
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals
"Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals." Religion, Brain & Behavior, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance
Nomadic pastoralists are systematically underrepresented in the planning of health services and frequently missed by health campaigns due to their mobility. Previous studies have developed novel geospatial methods to address these challenges but rely on manual techniques that are too time and resource-intensive to scale on a national or regional level. To address this gap, we developed a computer vision-based approach to automatically locate acti…
Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025)
Coalitions matter for both men and women: Insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia
The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter
The phrase Man the Hunter is associated with disparate meanings across communities of scholars, journalists, and the public, which has led to unnecessary scientific disagreement and popular misunderstanding. In this paper, we ask: what does Man the Hunter mean? We distinguish three historical meanings of Man the Hunter. First, in the early-to-mid 20th century, popular writers propagated ideas of human evolution that focused on hunting, men, aggre…
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Language and cultural evolution (4 works)