Publications

Books

1. Aunger, Robert (2020) Reset: An Introduction to Behaviour Centred Design. Oxford University Press.

2. Aunger, Robert and Valerie Curtis (2015) Gaining Control: How Human Behaviour Evolved. Oxford University Press. 

3. Aunger, Robert (2003). Reflexive Ethnographic Science. AltaMira Press.

4. Aunger, Robert (2002). The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think. Free Press [Spanish translation (Paidos) in 2004; Chinese translation in 2011 (CITIC Press); Turkish translation forthcoming (Alfa Publications)]

5. Aunger, Robert, ed. (2001). Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science. Oxford University Press. [Japanese translation (Sangyo Tosho) in 2004; Arabic translation in 2009]

6. Aunger, Robert (1992). An Ethnography of Variation:  Food Avoidances among Horticulturalists and Foragers in the Ituri Forest, Zaire. Ph.D. dissertation. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

Peer-reviewed articles

1. Fletcher, Henry, and Robert Aunger (2024) ‘Understanding mass panic.’ Journal of Applied Social Science.  https:// doi/10.1177/19367244241245702.

2. Aunger, Robert (2024) ‘On trends and periods in Big History’. Journal of Big History 7(2): 29–42.  https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v7i2.7204

3. Aunger, Robert (2024) ‘A decision-making model for taking climate-friendly action’. Qeios.  https://doi.org/10.32388/G2MQ50

4. Aunger, Robert, Sebastian Deterding, Xiaoyang Zhao and Weston Baxter. (2024) “Applying the Barker School concept of ‘behaviour settings’ to virtual contexts.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (special issue on Behaviour Settings). 

5. Aunger, Robert, Hugh Waddington, Vishna Shah, and Kaposo Mwambuli (2024) ‘Comparison of COVID-19 behaviour change campaign ads in Tanzania: Results from a randomised controlled survey-based experiment’. Social Marketing Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/15245004241230310.

6. Aunger, Robert (2023) ‘What works in sanitation promotion?’ Health Promotion International. doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daad162.

7. Chan, Kallista Aimé-Charles Kouadio Konan, Dimi Théodore Doudou, Ghislain Brou Kouadio, Jo Lines, Robert Aunger, Raphael N’Guessan, Lucy Tusting (2023) “Rice farmers’ knowledge and practices towards mosquitoes in irrigation schemes in Côte d’Ivoire: a qualitative study.” Malaria Journal 22:352.  https://doi: 10.1186/s12936-023-04785-y.

8. Aunger, Robert, Kaposo Mwambuli and Jason Cardosi (2023) ‘Lessons from a successful national sanitation programme: The case of Nyumba ni choo in Tanzania’. Health Promotion International 38 (5): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daad126

9. Sands, Madeline and Robert Aunger (2023) ‘Process evaluation of an acute-care nurse-centred hand hygiene intervention in US hospitals’. Evaluation Review. doi.org/10.1177/0193841X231197253.

10. Czerniewska, Alexandra, Kaposo Mwambuli, Val Curtis, and Robert Aunger (2023) ‘Intervention design in public health: Adaptive messaging in the Tanzanian National Sanitation Campaign.’ Health Promotion International 38:1-10. doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daad064 [featured article]

11. Mwakalikamo, Joshua, Emili Sankwa and Robert Aunger (2023) ‘The impact of on-ground activation events on improved toilet coverage: A case study from the Tanzania National Sanitation Campaign “Nyumba ni Choo”’. Environmental Health Insights. doi.org/10.1177/11786302231180405.

12. Brial, Edward, Weston Baxter and Robert Aunger (2023) ‘Development of a novel hand cleansing product for low-income contexts: the case of Tab Soap’. PLOS One. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283741.

13. Aunger, Robert and Katie Greenland (2023) ‘Testing the Human Superorganism Approach to morality’. Culture and Evolution. doi.org/10.1556/2055.2022.00007

14. de Witt Huberts, Jessie, Val Curtis, Connie Celum, Jennifer Morton, Linda-Gail Bekker, Katherine Gill and Robert Aunger (2022) ‘Theory-driven formative research to support development of a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) demand creation campaign among young women in a South-African township.‘ Gates Open Research. https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/6-83/v1.

15. Kessler, Sharon, and Robert Aunger (2022) ‘The evolution of the human healthcare system and implications for understanding our responses to COVID-19’. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 10:87-107. https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/10/1/87/6527632

16.  Aunger, Robert, Dugald Foster and Val Curtis (2021) ‘Psychometric analysis of a postulated set of evolved human motives’. Frontiers in Psychology 12:680229. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680229.

17. Sands, Madeline, and Robert Aunger (2021) ‘Designing a hand hygiene behaviour change intervention in hospitals using a theory-based process’. Implementation Science Communications. 2:23, https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-021-00124-x.

18.  Gon, Giorgia, Said M. Ali, Robert Aunger, Oona Campbell, Mícheál de Barra, Marijn de Bruin, Mohammed Juma, Stephen Nash, Amour Tajo, Johanna Westbrook, Susannah Woodd, and Wendy J. Graham (2020) ‘A practical guide to using time-and-motion methods to monitor compliance with hand hygiene guidelines: Experience from Tanzanian labor wards’. Global Health: Science and Practice. doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00221.

19.  Watson, Julie, Oliver Cumming, Robert Aunger, Claudio Deola, Rachel P. Chase and Robert Dreibelbis (2020) ‘Child handwashing in an internally displaced persons camp in Northern Iraq: A qualitative multi-method exploration of motivational drivers and other handwashing determinants.’ PLOS One. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228482

20. Schmidt, Wolf-Peter, Kavita Chauhan, Priya Bhavsar, Sandul Yasobant, Veibhav Patwardhan, Robert Aunger, Dileep Mavalankar, Deepak Saxena, and Val Curtis (2020) ‘Cluster-randomised trial to test the effect of a behaviour change intervention on toilet use in rural India: Results and methodological considerations’. BMC Public Health 20: 1389.

21. Biran, Adam, Sian White, Bolowatito Awe, Katie Greenland, Obinna Akabike, Nanpet Chuktu, Robert Aunger, Val Curtis, Wolf-Peter Schmidt and Carolien Van der Voorden (2020) ‘A cluster-randomised trial to evaluate an intervention to promote handwashing in rural Nigeria’. International Journal of Environmental Health Research.

22. Curtis, Val, Robert Dreibelbis, Myriam Sidibe, Jason Cardosi, Chris Bonell, Sian White and Robert Aunger (2020) ‘Strategic thinking in a pandemic: A Blueprint for Government-led National Hygiene Communication Campaigns to combat COVID-19’. BMJ Public Health. 

23. Sands, Madeline, Alexander Aiken, Oliver Cumming and Robert Aunger (2020) ‘The effect of behavioural interventions targeting hand hygiene practices among nurses in high income hospital settings: A systematic review.’ Public Health Reviews.

24. Aunger, Robert (2020) ‘Toward a model of situations and their context’. Journal of General Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089268020931767.

25. Sands, Madeline, and Robert Aunger (2020) ‘Determinants of hand hygiene compliance among nurses in US hospitals: A formative research study.’ PLOS One 15(4): e020573. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0230573. 

26. Morton, Jennifer F., Laura Myers, Katherine Gill, Linda-Gail Bekker, Gabrielle Stein, Menna Duyver, Ariane van der Straten, Margaret McConnell, Robert Aunger, Valerie Curtis, Lut van Damme, Jared M. Baeten, and Connie Celum (2020) ‘Evaluation of a behavior-centred design strategy to creating demand for oral PrEP among young women in Cape Town, South Africa’. Gates Open Research.

27. Burton, Jasmine, Ben Tidwell, Jenala Chipungu, and Robert Aunger (2020) ‘The Role of the SaTo Pan Toilet Technologies in Advancing Progress in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector.’ Journal of Science Policy and Governance. 

28. Czerniewska, Alexandra, Winnie C. Muangi, Adam Biran, Robert Aunger and Val Curtis (2019) ‘Theory-driven formative research to inform the design of a national sanitation campaign in Tanzania.’ PLoS One. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221445

29. Curtis, Val, Robert Dreibelbis, Helen Buxton and Robert Aunger (2019) ‘Behaviour settings theory applied to domestic water use in Nigeria: A new conceptual tool for the study of routine behaviour.’ Social Science and Medicine 235:112398. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112398

30. James B Tidwell, Jenala Chipungu, Samuel Bosomprah, Valerie Curtis, Robert Aunger and Roma Chilengi, (2019) ‘Effect of a behaviour-change intervention on peri-urban sanitation quality in Lusaka, Zambia: a randomized, controlled trial’. Lancet Planetary Health 3(4):e187-e196.

31. Tidwell, James B, Matthew Quaife, Fern Terris-Prestholt and Robert Aunger (2019) ‘Understanding demand for higher quality sanitation in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia through stated and revealed preference analysis’. Social Science and Medicine 232:139-147.

32. James B Tidwell, Jenala Chipungu, Roma Chilengi, Valerie Curtis and Robert Aunger (2019) ‘Using a theory-driven creative process to design a peri-urban on-site sanitation quality improvement intervention in Lusaka, Zambia’. BMC Public Health 19:565. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6898-7.

33. James B Tidwell, Jenala Chipungu, Roma Chilengi, Valerie Curtis and Robert Aunger (2019) ‘Theory-driven formative research on sanitation improvement among landlords and tenants in Lusaka, Zambia’. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2018.1543798 

34. Watson, Julie, Robert Dreibelbis, Claudio Deola, Katrice King, Robert Aunger, Susan Long, Rachel P. Chase and Oliver Cumming (2019) ‘Child’s play: Harnessing Play and Curiosity motives to improve child handwashing in a humanitarian setting’. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 222(2): 177-182.

35. Tidwell, James B, Jenala Chipungu, Roma Chilengi and Robert Aunger (2018) ‘Assessing peri-urban sanitation quality using a theoretically derived composite measure in Lusaka, Zambia’. Journal of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Development. 8:4. 

36. Chipungu, Jenala, James B Tidwell, Joyce Chilekwa, Emily Stephenson, Roma Chilengi, Valerie Curtis and Robert Aunger (2018) ‘The social dynamics around shared sanitation in an informal settlement of Lusaka, Zambia’. Journal of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Development 9(1):102-110  doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2018.102

37. Judah, Gaby, Ben Gardner-Sood, Micheal Keward, Barbara DeStavola and Robert Aunger (2018) ‘Exploratory study of the impact of perceived reward on habit formation’. BMC Psychology 6(1):62 doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0270-z.

38. Judah, Gaby, Jessie deWitt Huberts, Allan Drassal and Robert Aunger (2017) ‘The development and validation of a real-time location system to reliably monitor everyday activities in natural contexts’. PLOS One 12(2): e017161

39. Aunger, Robert (2017) ‘Moral action as cheater suppression in human superorganisms’. Frontiers in Sociology 22: doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2017.00002.  

40. Aunger, Robert and Valerie Curtis (2016) ‘Behaviour Centred Design: Toward an applied science of behaviour change’. Health Psychology Review.

41. Aunger, Robert, Katie Greenland, George Ploubidis, John Oxford and Val Curtis (2016) ‘The determinants of reported personal and household hygiene behaviour: A multi-country study’. PLOS One. 

42. Rajaraman, Divya, Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, Katie Greenland, Valerie Curtis, Raja Kumar, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Robert Aunger, Adam Biran (2014) ‘Implementing effective hygiene promotion: Lessons from theprocess evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in ruralIndia’. BMC Public Health 19;14(1):1179.   

43. Biran, Adam, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Divya Rajaraman, Kiruba Sanker Varadharajan, Katie Greenland, Raja Kumar, Robert Aunger, Mario Vas and Valerie Curtis (2014) ‘Effect of a behaviour-change intervention onhandwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial.’ The Lancet Global Health, 2(3), e145-e154.    

44. Greenland, Katie, Endang Iradati, Abigael Ati, Yanti Yulianti Maskoen, and Robert Aunger (2013) ‘The context and practice of hand-washingamong new mothers in Serang, Indonesia: A formative study.’ BMC Public Health 13:830.     

45. Aunger, Robert, and Valerie Curtis (2013). ‘The anatomy of motivation: An evolutionary ecological approach’. Biological Theory. 

46. Judah, Gaby, Benjamin Gardner Sood, and Robert Aunger (2013) ‘Forming a flossing habit: An exploratory study of the psychological determinants of habit formation’. British Journal of Health Psychology. 18(2):338-353.    

47. Krentel, Alison and Robert Aunger (2011). ‘Causal chain mapping: a novel method to analyze treatment compliance decisions, with application to lymphatic filariasis in Alor, Indonesia’. Health Policy and Planning 26(4): 1-12.

48. Curtis, Valerie, Míchèal DeBarra and Robert Aunger (2011). ‘Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366:389-401.

49. Aunger, Robert (2010) ‘Types of technology.’ Technological Forecasting and Social Change 77:762-782.

50. Aunger, Robert (2010) ‘What’s special about human technology?’ Cambridge Journal of Economics 34:115-123.

51. Aunger, Robert, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Ashish Ranpura, Yolande Coombes, Peninnah Mukiri Maina, Carol Nkatha Matiko and Valerie Curtis (2010) ‘Three kinds of psychological determinants for hand-washing behaviour in Kenya.’  Social Science and Medicine 70: 383-391.

52. Schmidt, Wolf-Peter, Robert Aunger, Yolande Coombes, Peninnah Mukiri Maina, Carol Nkatha Matiko, Adam Biran and Valerie Curtis (2009) ‘Determinants of handwashing practices in Kenya: The role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure.’ Tropical Medicine and International Health 14: 1534-1541.

53. Judah, Gaby, Robert Aunger, Valerie Curtis, Wolf-Peter Schmidt and Susan Michie (2009) ‘Experimental pre-testing of potential public health interventions: The case of handwashing with soap’. American Journal of Pubic Health 99:S405-S411.

54. Curtis, Valerie, Lisa Danquah and Robert Aunger (2009) ‘Planned, motivated and habitual hygiene behaviour: an eleven country review.’ Health Education Research 24(4): 655-673.

55. Aunger, Robert, and Valerie Curtis (2008). ‘Kinds of behaviour.’ Biology and Philosophy 23(3):317-345.

56. Rubio-Godoy, Miguel, Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis (2007). ‘Serotonin: A link between disgust and immunity?’ Medical Hypotheses 68(1): 61-66.

57. Scott, Beth, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Robert Aunger, Nana Garbrah-Aidoo, and R. Animashaun (2007). ‘Marketing hygiene behaviours: Which communications channels are most likely to change hygiene behaviours at scale: Results of a mid-term evaluation of a national handwashing campaign in Ghana.’ Health Education Research 23 (3): 392-401.

58. Aunger, Robert (2007). ‘Tooth-brushing as routine behaviour.’ International Dental Journal 57 (5): 364-376.

59. Aunger, Robert (2007) ‘Major transitions in ‘big’ history’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74(8):1137-1163.

60. Aunger, Robert (2007). ‘A rigorous periodization of ‘big’ history’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74(8):1164-1178.

61. Cordaux, Richard, Gillian Bentley, Robert Aunger, S.M. Sirajuddin and Mark Stoneking (2004). ‘Y-STR haplotypes from eight south Indian groups based on five loci.’ Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(4): 847-8.

62. Cordaux, Richard, Robert Aunger, Gillian Bentley, Ivane Nasidze, Nilmani Saha, S.M. Sirajuddin and Mark Stoneking (2004). ‘Independent origins of Indian caste and tribal paternal lineages.’ Current Biology 14:231-5.

63. Curtis, Valerie, Robert Aunger and Tamer Rabie (2004). ‘Quantitative evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Suppl.): Biology Letters 4:S131-S133.

64. Cordaux, Richard, Nilmani Saha, Gillian R. Bentley, Robert Aunger, S. M. Sirajuddin and Mark Stoneking (2003). ‘Mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals diverse histories of tribal populations from India.’ European Journal of Human Genetics 11:253-264.

65. Aunger, Robert (2002) ‘Exposure versus susceptibility in the epidemiology of ‘everyday’ beliefs.’ Journal of Cognition and Culture 2 (2):113-154.

66. Aunger, Robert (2000). ‘The life history of culture learning in a face-to-face society.’ Ethos 28(2):1-38.

67. Clark, Vanessa J., Shanthi Sivendren, Nilmani Saha, Gillian R. Bentley, Robert Aunger, S.M. Sirajuddin, and Mark Stoneking (2000). ‘The mtDNA COH/tRNALys intergenic 9-bp deletion between the mitochondrial lysine tRNA and COII genes in tribal populations of India.’ Human Biology 72 (2):273-285.

68. Aunger, Robert (1999). ‘Against Idealism/Contra consensus [Theory in Anthropology Forum on ‘Culture as Consensus’]’ Current Anthropology 40:S93-S101.

69. Bentley, Gillian R., Robert Aunger, Alisa M. Harrigan, Mark Jenike, Robert C. Bailey and Peter T. Ellison (1999). ‘Women’s strategies to alleviate nutritional stress in a rural African society,’ Social Science and Medicine 48:149-62.

70. Aunger, Robert (1996). ‘Acculturation and the persistence of indigenous food avoidances in northeastern Zaire,’ Human Organization 55(2):206-218.

71. Aunger, Robert (1995). ‘On ethnography: Story-telling or science? [with commentaries]’ Current Anthropology 36:97-130.

72. Aunger, Robert (1994). ‘Are food avoidances maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire?’ Journal of Anthropological Research 50:277-310.

73. Aunger, Robert (1994). ‘Sources of variation in ethnographic interview data: Food avoidances in the Ituri Forest, Zaire,’ Ethnology 33:65-99.

74. Aunger, Robert (1992). ‘The nutritional consequences of rejecting food in the Ituri Forest of Zaire,’ Human Ecology 20:263-291.

75. Bailey, Robert C., and Robert Aunger (1990). ‘Humans as primates: The social relationships of Efe Pygmy men in comparative perspective,’ International Journal of Primatology 11:127-146.

76. Bailey, Robert C., and Robert Aunger (1989). ‘Net hunters vs. archers: variation in women's subsistence strategies in the Ituri Forest,’ Human Ecology 17:273-297. 

77. Bailey, Robert C., and Robert Aunger (1989). ‘Significance of the social relationships of Efe pygmy men in the Ituri Forest, Zaire,’ American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:495-507.

Chapters in edited books

1. Aunger, Robert (2024) ‘On trends and periods in Big History’ in The 21st Century Singularity: A Big History Perspective’, ed. by David LePoire and Andrey Korotayev. Springer.

2. Aunger, Robert (2018) “Major transitions in ‘big history’” in From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology, ed. by Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev. Primus Books. 

3. Aunger, Robert, Yolande Coombes, Valerie Curtis, Hans Mosler and Helen Trevaskis (2014) ‘Changing WASH behaviour’. Sanitation and Hygiene in Africa: Where do We Stand? Analysis from the AfricaSan Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, ed. by Piers Cross and Yolande Coombes. London: IWA Publishing, pp. 45-52.

4. Aunger, Robert and Valerie Curtis (2014) ‘The Evo-Eco approach to behaviour change.’ Applied Evolutionary Anthropology, ed. by David Lawson and Mhairi Gibson. Springer Verlag. 

5. Curtis, Valerie and Robert Aunger (2011) ‘Motivational mismatch: Evolved motives as the source of – and solution to – global public health problems’.  Applied Evolutionary Psychology, ed. by S. Craig Roberts. Oxford University Press, pp. 259-75. 

6. Robert Aunger (2010) ‘Three Roads to Cultural Replication’. Evolutionary Psychology and Information Systems Research: A New Approach to Studying the Effects of Modern Technologies on Human Behavior, edited by Ned Kock. Springer Verlag, pp. 341-354.

7. Sniehotta, Falko and Robert Aunger (2010) ‘Stage models of behaviour change’. Health Psychology (2nd edition), edited by David P French, A Kaptein, K Vedhara and John Weinman. Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell.

8. Aunger, Robert (2009). ‘Human communication as niche construction,’ in Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, ed. by Stephen Shennan. University of California Press, pp. 33-44.

9. Bentley, Gillian and Robert Aunger (2008) ‘Practical aspects of evolutionary medicine’, in Sarah Elton and Paul O’Higgins, eds. Medicine and Evolution: Current Applications, Future Prospects, SSHB series volume 47. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 217-240.

10. Aunger, Robert (2007). ‘Memes,’ in Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, ed. by Leslie Barrett and Robin Dunbar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 599-605.

11. Aunger, Robert (2006). ‘What’s the matter with memes?’ in Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, ed. by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

12. Aunger, Robert (2006). ‘An agnostic on memes,’ in Social Information Transmission and Human Biology, ed. by Jonathan Wells, Simon Strickland and Kevin Laland. London: Taylor and Francis, pp. 89-97.

13. Aunger, Robert (2004). ‘Memes,’ in The Social Science Encyclopedia (3rd ed), ed. by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper. London: Routledge.

14. Aunger, Robert (2003). ‘Cultural transmission and diffusion,’ in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, ed. by Lynn Nadel. London: MacMillan.

15. Aunger, Robert (2001). ‘Introduction,’ in Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, ed. by Robert Aunger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-23.

16. Aunger, Robert (2001) ‘Conclusion,’ in Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, ed. by Robert Aunger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205-32.

17. Aunger, Robert, and Malcolm Dow (1997). ‘Qualitative methodology,’ in The Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology, ed. by Thomas Barfield, London: Basil Blackwell, pp. 386-7.

18. Bailey, Robert C., and Robert Aunger (1995). ‘Sexuality, infertility, and sexually transmitted disease among farmers and foragers in Central Africa,’ in Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture, ed. by Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton, University of Chicago Press, pp. 195-222. 

Articles in professional or policy journals (not peer-reviewed)

1. Aunger, Robert (2006). ‘Culture only evolves if there is cultural inheritance.’ [Comment on ‘Toward a unified science of cultural evolution’ by Alex Mesoudi, Kevin Laland and Andrew Whiten] Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 347-348.

2. Aunger, Robert (2004). ‘Preface’, Darwinising Culture (Japanese translation).

3. Aunger, Robert (2003). Book review: Michael Schiffer (ed.) Anthropological Perspectives on Technology. Current Anthropology 44:618-9.

4. Aunger, Robert (2003). Book review: Chris McManus Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms, and Cultures. Anthropological Quarterly 75:801-6.

5. Aunger, Robert (2002) ‘Cultural transmission processes,’ Urrutia Elejalde Foundation Digital Library, ‘Philosophical Aspects of Economics’ Series, volume 1.

6. Aunger, Robert (2001). Book review: John Ziman (ed.) Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 4(4).

7. Aunger, Robert (2000). Book review: Lee Cronk’s That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior 21(2):145-47.

8. Aunger, Robert (2000). ‘Phenogenotypes break up under countervailing evolutionary pressures.’ [Comment on ‘Niche construction, biological evolution and cultural change’ by Kevin Laland et al.] Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(1):147.

9. Aunger, Robert (1999). ‘A Report on the conference ‘Do Memes Account for Culture?’ held at King’s College, Cambridge.’ Journal of Memetics 3.2.

10. Aunger, Robert (1998). ‘The ‘core meme’ meme’ [Comment on ‘Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars’ by Scott Atran] Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:569-570.

11. Aunger, Robert (1995). ‘Comment on ‘Bridewealth and its correlates: Quantifying changes over time’ by Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder’, Current Anthropology 36:590-1.

Articles in popular journals or magazines

1. Aunger, Robert (2011). ‘Crossing America in search of memes’ [Review of Jonnie Hughes’ book On the Origin of Tepees]. BBC Focus magazine.

2. Aunger, Robert (2004).  ‘Aunger’s Laws.’ The Edge

3. Aunger, Robert (2003). ‘Anthropologist as science advisor to the US President.’ The Edge

4. Aunger, Robert (2002).  ‘Is technology going to ‘wake up’ or ‘come alive’ anytime in the future?’ The Edge

5. Aunger, Robert (2001). ‘Is the Central Dogma of biology inviolate?’ The Edge

6. Aunger, Robert (2001).  ‘What now? [reflections on the terrorist attacks in the US]’ The Edge

7. Aunger, Robert (2000). ‘The end of the nation-state,’ The Edge

8. Aunger, Robert (1999). ‘Culture vultures,’ The Sciences 39 (5):36-42.

Reports

1. Aunger, Robert and Helen Trevaskis (2007). ‘The Handy Little Book of Tools for Schools’.

2. Curtis, Valerie and Robert Aunger (2007). ‘Mapping Motivations: Evolutionary Health Promotion’, in Nesse, R. (ed.), Evolution and Medicine: How New Applications Advance Research and Practice, The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London

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