Publications

@article{mouginot2026coalitions,
  title={Coalitions matter for both men and women: Insights from three subsistence communities in southwest Ethiopia},
  author={Mouginot, Maud and Garfield, Zachary H. and Glowacki, Luke},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={47},
  number={4},
  pages={106882},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106882}
}

@article{vadavalli2026social,
  title={Social structure shapes consensus decision-making norms in small-scale societies},
  author={Vadavalli, Bhavya Deepti and Garfield, Zachary H. and Glowacki, Luke},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B},
  volume={381},
  number={1948},
  year={2026},
  publisher={The Royal Society},
  doi={10.1098/rstb.2024.0449}
}

@article{venkataraman2026meanings,
  title={The meanings and dividends of man the hunter},
  author={Venkataraman, Vivek V. and Hagen, Edward H. and Stibbard-Hawkes, Duncan and Hames, Raymond and Lew-Levy, Sheina and Jang, Haneul and Glowacki, Luke and Hoffman, Jordie and Kramer, Karen and Davis, Helen Elizabeth and Starkweather, Kathrine and Hewlett, Barry and Garfield, Zachary H. and Kelly, Robert L.},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={47},
  number={3},
  pages={106840},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106840}
}

@article{garfield2025teaching,
  title={Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Lew-Levy, Sheina},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  volume={16},
  number={1},
  pages={3387},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group},
  doi={10.1038/s41467-025-58764-9}
}

@article{garfield2025legacy,
  title={Legacy and constraint in the evolution of human culture},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H.},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={46},
  number={5},
  pages={106714},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106714}
}

@article{laustsen2025cross,
  title={Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study},
  author={Laustsen, Lasse and Sheng, Xiaotian and Ahmad, M. Ghufran and Al-Shawaf, Laith and Banai, Benjamin and Banai, Irena Pavela and Barlev, Michael and Bastardoz, Nicolas and Bor, Alexander and Cheng, Joey T. and Chmielinska, Anna and Cook, Alexandra and Fousiani, Kyriaki and Garfield, Zachary H. and Ghossainy, Maliki and Ha, Shang E. and Ji, Tingting and Jones, Benedict C. and Kandrik, Michal and Kanu, Catherine Chiugo and Kenrick, Douglas T. and Kordsmeyer, Tobias L. and Martinez, Cristhian A. and Mazepus, Honorata and O, Jiaqing and Onyishi, Ike Ernest and Pawlowski, Boguslaw and Penke, Lars and Petersen, Michael Bang and Ronay, Richard and Sznycer, Daniel and Palomo-Velez, Gonzalo and von Rueden, Christopher R. and Waismel-Manor, Israel and Wiezel, Adi and van Vugt, Mark},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={46},
  number={3},
  pages={106674},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106674}
}

@article{hagen2025headmen,
  title={Headmen, shamans, and mothers: Natural and sexual selection for computational services},
  author={Hagen, Edward H. and Garfield, Zachary H. and Lightner, Aaron D.},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={46},
  number={1},
  pages={106651},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106651}
}

@article{garfield2025multi,
  title={The multi-capital leadership theory: An integrative framework for human leadership diversity},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and von Rueden, Christopher R. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={Human Nature},
  volume={36},
  number={3},
  pages={424--459},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/s12110-025-09503-y}
}

@article{molho2024cross,
  title={Cross-societal variation in norm enforcement systems},
  author={Molho, Catherine and De Petrillo, Francesca and Garfield, Zachary H. and Slewe, Sam},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B},
  volume={379},
  number={1897},
  year={2024},
  publisher={The Royal Society},
  doi={10.1098/rstb.2023.0034}
}

@incollection{lonati2024leadership,
  title={Leadership as an emotional process: An evolutionarily informed perspective},
  author={Lonati, Sirio and Garfield, Zachary H. and Bastardoz, Nicolas and von Rueden, Christopher R.},
  booktitle={The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Oxford University Press},
  doi={10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.33}
}

@article{garfield2023interpersonal,
  title={Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Glowacki, Luke},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={44},
  number={6},
  pages={613--623},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.10.003}
}

@article{garfield2023norm,
  title={Norm violations and punishments across human societies},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Ringen, Erik J. and Buckner, William and Medupe, Dithapelo and Wrangham, Richard W. and Glowacki, Luke},
  journal={Evolutionary Human Sciences},
  volume={5},
  pages={e11},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  doi={10.1017/ehs.2023.7}
}

@article{gopalan2022hunter,
  title={Hunter-gatherer genomes reveal diverse demographic trajectories during the rise of farming in Eastern Africa},
  author={Gopalan, Shyamalika and Berl, Richard E. W. and Myrick, Justin W. and Garfield, Zachary H. and Reynolds, Austin W. and Bafens, Barnabas K. and Belbin, Gillian and Mastoras, Mira and Williams, Cole and Daya, Michelle and Negash, Akmel N. and Feldman, Marcus W. and Hewlett, Barry S. and Henn, Brenna M.},
  journal={Current Biology},
  volume={32},
  number={8},
  pages={1852--1860},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.050}
}

@article{singh2022evidence,
  title={Evidence for third-party mediation but not punishment in Mentawai justice},
  author={Singh, Manvir and Garfield, Zachary H.},
  journal={Nature Human Behaviour},
  volume={6},
  number={7},
  pages={930--940},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Nature Publishing Group},
  doi={10.1038/s41562-022-01341-7}
}

@article{garfield2021content,
  title={The content and structure of reputation domains across human societies: A view from the evolutionary social sciences},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Schacht, Ryan and Post, Emily R. and Ingram, Dominique and Uehling, Andrea and Macfarlan, Shane J.},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B},
  volume={376},
  number={1838},
  pages={20200296},
  year={2021},
  publisher={The Royal Society},
  doi={10.1098/rstb.2020.0296}
}

@article{garfield2021correlates,
  title={Correlates of conflict resolution across cultures},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H.},
  journal={Evolutionary Human Sciences},
  volume={3},
  pages={e45},
  year={2021},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  doi={10.1017/ehs.2021.41}
}

@article{garfield2020universal,
  title={Universal and variable leadership dimensions across human societies},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Syme, Kristen L. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={41},
  number={5},
  pages={397--414},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.07.012}
}

@article{garfield2020investigating,
  title={Investigating evolutionary models of leadership among recently settled Ethiopian hunter-gatherers},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={The Leadership Quarterly},
  volume={31},
  number={2},
  pages={101290},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.03.005}
}

@article{garfield2019evolutionary,
  title={Evolutionary models of leadership: Tests and synthesis},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Hubbard, Robert L. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={Human Nature},
  volume={30},
  number={1},
  pages={23--58},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/s12110-019-09338-4}
}

@article{garfield2019review,
  title={The evolutionary anthropology of political leadership},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and von Rueden, Christopher R. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={The Leadership Quarterly},
  volume={30},
  number={1},
  pages={59--80},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.09.001}
}

@article{hames2017male,
  title={Is male androphilia a context-dependent cross-cultural universal?},
  author={Hames, Raymond and Garfield, Zachary H. and Garfield, Melissa J.},
  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},
  volume={46},
  number={1},
  pages={63--71},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/s10508-016-0855-7}
}

@incollection{garfield2017dominant,
  title={Dominant acts expressed (Buss 1981)},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H.},
  booktitle={Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2612-2}
}

@incollection{garfield2017men,
  title={Men's egoistic dominant acts},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H.},
  booktitle={Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2614-1}
}

@incollection{garfield2017women,
  title={Women's prosocial dominant acts},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Garfield, Melissa J.},
  booktitle={Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science},
  year={2017},
  publisher={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2613-1}
}

@article{syme2016testing,
  title={Testing the bargaining vs. inclusive fitness models of suicidal behavior against the ethnographic record},
  author={Syme, Kristen L. and Garfield, Zachary H. and Hagen, Edward H.},
  journal={Evolution and Human Behavior},
  volume={37},
  number={3},
  pages={179--192},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.10.005}
}

@incollection{garfield2016cross,
  title={A cross-cultural analysis of hunter-gatherer social learning},
  author={Garfield, Zachary H. and Garfield, Melissa J. and Hewlett, Barry S.},
  booktitle={Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers: Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives},
  pages={19--34},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Springer Japan},
  doi={10.1007/978-4-431-55997-9_2}
}

@article{vanderlaan2014female,
  title={The "female fertility--social stratification--hypergyny" hypothesis of male homosexual preference: Factual, conceptual, and methodological errors},
  author={VanderLaan, Doug P. and Garfield, Zachary H. and Garfield, Melissa J. and Leca, Jean-Baptiste and Vasey, Paul L. and Hames, Raymond B.},
  year={2014},
  note={Commentary},
  doi={10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.06.002}
}