2025 The multi-capital leadership theory: an integrative framework for human leadership diversity
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2024 Leadership as an emotional process: an evolutionarily informed perspective
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2020 From genes to minds to cultures: evolutionary approaches to leadership
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2019 Review of The Imbalance of Power: Leadership, Masculinity, and Wealth in the Amazon, by M. Brightman
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American Ethnologist
2019 The evolutionary anthropology of political leadership
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2015 Leadership in small-scale societies: some implications for leadership evolution and practice
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2015 Leadership solves collective action problems in small-scale societies
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
2015 Solving the puzzle of collective action through inter-individual differences
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2014 A comment on the service-for-prestige theory of leadership
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2014 Leadership in an egalitarian society
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2012 When the strong punish: why the net costs of punishment are often negligible
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