Karthik Panchanathan

I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Co-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

The evolution of prestige-biased transmission

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

Karthik Panchanathan, Eric Alden Smith

Tinbergen’s Fifth: What role should subjective experience play in human ethology?

André Ariew, Karthik Panchanathan

Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas Reydon, Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Springer, 2023

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

Daniel Nettle, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan

Open Mind, vol. 7, 2023, pp. 625-651

Cultural Evolution

Karthik Panchanathan

Jeremy Koster, Brooke Scelza, Mary Shenk, Human Behavioral Ecology, Cambridge University Press, 2023

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