Publications


Evolution of Learning and Development


The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data


Nicole Walasek, Karthik Panchanathan, Willem E. Frankenhuis

Functional Ecology, 2024


Sensitive periods, but not critical periods, evolve in a fluctuating environment: a model of incremental 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


A mathematical model of the evolution of individual differences in developmental plasticity arising through parental bet-hedging


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


Cultural 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


Game Theory


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


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



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


Buffy the Vampire Dater


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