Karthik Panchanathan

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Evolution and Social Science Group at the University of Missouri. My research interests include cooperation and social evolution, cultural evolution, evolution of learning and development, metascience, and philosophy of biology. I teach courses on cultural anthropology, the evolution of human nature, theory in anthropology, and the department capstone seminar.

Recent publications

Biology, society, or choice: How do non-experts interpret explanations of behaviour?

Daniel Nettle, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan

Open Mind

Cultural Evolution

Karthik Panchanathan

Jeremy Koster, Brooke Scelza, Mary Shenk, Human Behavioral Ecology, Human Behavioral Ecology, Cambridge University Press

The evolution of prestige-biased transmission

Karthik Panchanathan

Evolutionary Pathways to Group Cooperation: Reputation, Reciprocity, and Signaling

Karthik Panchanathan, Eric Alden Smith

Strategic ambiguity in the social sciences

Willem Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino

Social Psychological Bulletin

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