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Human Systems and Behavior Lab

PI Luke Glowacki
Boston University

Select Academic Publications
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2022

Singh M. & Glowacki L. Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Glowacki L. & McDermott R. Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society--Biological Sciences 377.

Glowacki L. & Lew-Levy S. How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation. Current Opinion in Psychology 44: 44-48.

2021

Savage P., Loui P., Tarr B., Schachenr A., Glowacki L., Mithen S., & Fitch W.T. Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1-36.

2020

Glowacki L. The emergence of locally adaptive institutions: insights from traditional social structures of East African pastoralists. Biosystems 198: 104257.

Glowacki L., Wilson M. & Wrangham R. The evolutionary anthropology of war. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 178: 963-982.

2019

Mehr, S., Singh, M., Knox, D., Ketter, D., Pickens-Jones, D., Atwood, S., Lucas, C., Egner, A., Jacoby, N., Hopkins, E., Howard, R. M., Hartshorne, J. K., Jennings, M. V., Simson, J., Bainbridge, C. M., Pinker, S., O'Donnell, T., Krasnow, M., & Glowacki, L. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science, 366, eaax0868:1-17.

Glowacki L. War is easy but peace is hard [Commentary]. Comment on Wiessner's Collective action for war and peace. Current Anthropology.

Wild H, Glowacki L, Maples S, Mejía-Guevara I, Krystosik A, Bonds M, Hiruy A, LaBeaud D & Barry M. 2019. Making pastoralists count: geospatial methods in the surveillance of a nomadic population. American Journal of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine.

Buckner W. & Glowacki L. 2019. Reasons to strike first [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 42: e119

2018

Glowacki L. The cultural evolution of war rituals [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences .

*Dogan G., *Glowacki L., *Rusch H. Spoils division rules shape aggression between natural groups. Nature Human Behaviour.

* Equal contribution

Mehr S., Singh M., York H., Glowacki L., Krasnow M. Form and function in human song. Current Biology.

2017

Wilson M. & Glowacki L. 2017. Violent cousins: chimpanzees, humans, and the roots of war. Muller M., Wrangham R. & Pilbeam D. (eds). Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Singh M., Wrangham R. & Glowacki L. 2017. Self-interest and the design of rules. Human Nature.

Glowacki L. & Molleman L. 2017. Subsistence styles shape human social learning strategies. Nature Human Behaviour.

2016

Glowacki L., Isakov A., McDermott R., Wrangham R., Fowler J. & Christakis N. 2016. Formation of raiding parties for inter-group violence is mediated by social network structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Singh M., Glowacki L. & Wrangham R. 2016. Self-interested agents create, maintain, and modify group-functional culture. Brain and Behavioral Sciences [Commentary].

Isakov A., Holcomb A., Glowacki L. & Christakis N. 2016. Modeling the role of network and individual differences in inter-group violence. PloS ONE.

2015

von Rueden C., Gavrilets S. & Glowacki L. 2015. Solving the puzzle of collective action through inter-individual differences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

McAuliffe K., Wrangham R., Glowacki L. & Russell A. 2015. When cooperation begets cooperation: sigmoidal benefit functions and unattainable asymptotes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Glowacki L. & von Rueden C. 2015. Leadership solves collective action problems in small-scale societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Glowacki L. & Wrangham R. 2015. Cultural institutions can provide adaptive benefits for costly cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Letter].

Glowacki L. & Wrangham R. 2015. Warfare and reproductive success in a tribal population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Before 2015

Glowacki L. & Wrangham R. 2013. The role of rewards in motivating participation in simple warfare. Human Nature.

Glowacki L. & Gönc K. 2013. Customary institutions in pastoralist societies: a neglected potential for conflict resolution. Conflict Trends.

Wrangham R. & Glowacki L. 2012. Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and war in nomadic hunter-gatherers: evaluating the chimpanzee model. Human Nature.

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