John Patton
Professor
Degrees
PhD, University of California Santa Barbara
BA, California State University Los Angeles
Research Areas
Evolutionary anthropology: human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology, evolution of cooperation and conflict, coalitional psychology, social networks, game theory, horticultural forager and hunter gatherer societies; regional focus: Amazonia (Ecuador)
Recent Courses
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH 101), Non-Western Cultures and Western Traditions (ANTH 100), Human Evolution (ANTH 344), Advanced Human Evolution (ANTH 451)
Publications
Escasa, M., Gray, P.B., Patton, J.Q. 2010. Male traits associated with attractiveness in Conambo, Ecuador. Evolution and Human Behavior 31(3):193-200.
Patton, J.Q. (2005). Meat sharing for coalitional support. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(2): 137-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.008
Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer, C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., McElreath, R., Alvard, M., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Henrich, N.S., Hill, K., Gil-White, F., Gurven, M., Marlowe, F.W., Patton, J.Q., Tracer, D.2005. Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(6):838-855.
Henrich, J., Boyd, R., Bowles, S., Camerer C., Fehr, E., Gintis, H., McElreath, R., Alvard, M., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Smith, Henrich, N., Hill, K., Gil-White, F., Gurven, M., Marlowe, F.W., Patton, J.Q. and Tracer, D. (2005). "Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28(6): 795- 815. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X05000142.
Patton, J.Q. (2004). Coalitional effects on reciprocal fairness in the ultimatum game: A case from the Ecuadorian Amazon. IN J. Henrich, et al. (Eds.), Foundations of human sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies (pp. X-Y). Oxford Scholarship Online. DOI: 10.1093/0199262055.001.0001
Bowser, B.J., Patton, J.Q. 2004. Domestic spaces as public places: An ethnoarchaeological case study of houses, gender, and politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(2):157-181.
Orr, C.M., Dufour, D.L., Patton, J.Q. 2001. A comparison of anthropometric indices of nutritional status in Tukanoan and Achuar Amerindians. American Journal of Human Biology 13(3):301-309.
Patton, J.Q. (2000). Reciprocal altruism and warfare: A case from the Ecuadorian Amazon. IN L. Cronk, et al. (Eds.), Adaptation and human behavior: An anthropological perspective (pp. 417−436). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
