Evolution of Learning and Development
Nicole Walasek, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny
Nicole Walasek, Willem Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan
Behavioural Ecology, vol. 33, 2021, pp. 101-114
Enriching behavioral ecology with reinforcement learning methods
W. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Andrew Barto
Behavioural Processes, vol. 161, 2019, pp. 94-100
The evolution of sensitive periods in a model of incremental development
Karthik Panchanathan, Willem E. Frankenhuis
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 283, 2016, p. 20152439
W. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Jay Belsky
Developmental science, vol. 19, 2016, pp. 251-274
Cognition in harsh and unpredictable environments
Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Daniel Nettle
Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 7, 2016, pp. 76-80
Bridging developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology using dynamic optimization
Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, H. Clark Barrett
Developmental Science, vol. 16, 2013, pp. 584-598
Individual Differences in Developmental Plasticity May Result From Stochastic Sampling
Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan
Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 6, 2011, pp. 336-347
Balancing sampling and specialization: an adaptationist model of incremental development
Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 278, 2011, pp. 3558-3565
Development: Evolutionary ecology's midwife
Karthik Panchanathan, W. Frankenhuis, H. Barrett
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010
Cooperation and Social Evolution
Karthik Panchanathan
Jeremy Koster, Brooke Scelza, Mary Shenk, Human Behavioral Ecology, Cambridge University Press, 2023
The Many Faces of Behavioral Evolution
Karthik Panchanathan, William Baum
Behavioural Processes, vol. 161, 2019, pp. 1-2
Evolutionary Behavioral Economics
Terence Burnham, Stephen Lea, Adrian Bell, Herbert Gintis, Paul Glimcher, Robert Kurzban, Leonhard Lades, Kevin McCabe, Karthik Panchanathan, Miriam Teschl, Ulrich Witt
David Sloan Wilson, Alan Kirman, Complexity and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis for Economics, MIT Press, 2016, pp. 113-144
Explaining group-level traits requires distinguishing process from product
Karthik Panchanathan, Sarah Mathew, Charles Perreault
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014
Karthik Panchanathan
Jon McGee, Richard Warms, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2013
The bystander effect in an N-person dictator game
Karthik Panchanathan, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Joan Silk
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 120, 2013, pp. 285-297
The Evolution of Giving, Sharing, and Lotteries
Daniel Nettle, Karthik Panchanathan, Tage Rai, Alan Page Fiske
Current Anthropology, vol. 52, 2011, pp. 747-756
Karthik Panchanathan
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 277, 2011, pp. 48-54
Second-order free-riding problem solved?
Karthik Panchanathan, Robert Boyd
Nature, vol. 437, 2005, pp. E8-E9
Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem
Karthik Panchanathan, Robert Boyd
Nature, vol. 437, 2004, pp. 499-502
A tale of two defectors: The importance of standing in the evolution of indirect reciprocity
Karthik Panchanathan, Robert Boyd
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 224, 2003, pp. 115-126
Metascience
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
Shifting the level of selection in science
Leonid Tiokhin, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino, Daniel Lakens
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023
Strategic ambiguity in the social sciences
Willem Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2022
Honest signaling in academic publishing
Leonid Tiokhin, Karthik Panchanathan, Daniel Lakens, Simine Vazire, Thomas Morgan, Kevin Zollman
PloS one, vol. 16, 2021, pp. e0246675
Miscellany
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
White-faced capuchin monkeys use both rank and relationship quality to recruit allies
Kotrina Kajokaite, Andrew Whalen, Karthik Panchanathan, Susan Perry
Animal Behaviour, vol. 154, 2019, pp. 161-169
Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees
Robert Lynch, Virpi Lummaa, Karthik Panchanathan, Kevin Middleton, Anna Rotkirch, Mirkka Danielsbacka, David O'Brien, John Loehr
Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 3, 2019, pp. 337-345
Unpublished
Evolutionary Pathways to Group Cooperation: Reputation, Reciprocity, and Signaling
Karthik Panchanathan, Eric Alden Smith
Guest Blog Posts
Why indirect contributions matter for science and scientists
Leonid Tiokhin, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino, Daniel Lakens
Leonid Tiokhin's Blog, 2021 May
Strategic ambiguity or unknown unknowns?
Willem E. Frankenhuis, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino
Science Hamster, PhD, 2021 Apr
Book Reviews
Culture, conflict, and the birth of a cooperative species
Karthik Panchanathan
Journal of Bioeconomics, vol. 18, 2016, pp. 229-232
George Price, the Price equation, and cultural group selection
Karthik Panchanathan
Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 32, 2011, pp. 368-371
Are readers of Evolution and Human Behavior interesting people?
Karthik Panchanathan, Andreas Wilke
Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 28, 2007, pp. 448-450
Popular Writing
Siamak T. Naficy, Karthik Panchanathan
Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, BenBella Books, 2007, pp. 141-153
