Divine Placebo: Health and the Evolution of Religion

Human Ecology, 47, 157-163 Abstract In this paper, I draw on knowledge from several disciplines to explicate the potential evolutionary significance of health effects of religiosity. I present three mai

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A Critical Human Group Size and Firm Size Distributions in Industries

Journal of Bioeconomics, 21(2), 123-144 Abstract Initially taking a theoretical stance, this paper relates firm-level processes and size distributions of firms at the industry level. An analytically tra

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Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations

2012. PLoS ONE 7, e36439. AbstractDecreasing the number of people who must be vaccinated to immunize a community against an infectious disease could both save resources and decrease outbreak sizes. A k

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