Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology

By Kevin N. Laland, M. J. O’Brien. 2010

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Anthropology

1. M. Zeder
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. J. Odling-Smee
4. S. Lev-Yadun
5. S. Abbo
6. A. Gopher
7. Bruce D. Smith
8. Erle C. Ellis

In Cultural Studies

1. Bruce D. Smith
2. Kevin N. Laland
3. J. Odling-Smee
4. M. Zeder
5. Alex Mesoudi
6. Erle C. Ellis
7. Simon M. Reader
8. L. Lefebvre

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Bruce D. Smith
2. J. Odling-Smee
3. Kevin N. Laland
4. M. Zeder
5. S. Lev-Yadun
6. Alex Mesoudi
7. Erle C. Ellis
8. M. J. O’Brien

Citations in the corpus

• The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties (2023, unknown): “93) during which the transformation of the atmosphere of the entire planet provided a competitive advantage to aerobic organisms 94–96 .”
• The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40: Resource diversity, intensification, and an alternative to optimal foraging explanations (2012, background): “…of large bodies of environmental information that makes humans such proficient niche constructors, an ability that confers a tremendous evolutionary advantage to our species (Boyd and Richerson, 1985; Laland and O’Brien, 2010; Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Smith, 2007a, 2007b, 2009a, 2011b, 2012).”
• Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “We express that knowledge in our behavior, engineering, and technology, in the process modifying our environments in a myriad of ways, from tending crops to burning fossil fuels (Laland and O’Brien 2010, 2012, this issue; Fogarty and Feldman 2012, this issue; Smith 2012, this issue).”
• Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes (2012, background): “…al., 2010b, 2011b), the driving forces (e.g., Bar-Yosef and Belfer-Cohen, 1992), the nature of man-plants relations (e.g., Rindos, 1980; Smith, 2007; Laland and O’Brien, 2010), the role of conscious vs. unconscious selection (e.g., Heiser, 1988; Zohary, 2004; Abbo et al., 2005, 2011a), and the…”
• A Cultural Niche Construction Theory of Initial Domestication (2011, background): “To the contrary, small-scale societies deliberately modify both their local environments and their relationship with their environments in a variety of ways, large and small (Odling-Smee et al. 2003; Laland et al. 2007; Laland and O’Brien 2010).”