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  Craig Palmer, cultural anthropologist

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publications since 2006; for full list, please see C.V.

(In Press)

Palmer, C. T., Ellsworth, R. & L. B. Steadman
2009 “Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily Important.” In The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior. Eckart Voland & Wulf Schiefenhvel, eds. Springer: New York. in press.

Coe, K., & C. T. Palmer
2008 “How Elders Guided the Evolution of the Modern Human Brain, Social Behavior, and Culture.” American Indian Cultural Resource Journal. in press.

Ellis, L., Widmayer, A., & C. T. Palmer
2008 “Rapists Continuing to have Sex with Victims Following the Initial Assault: Evidence for Evolved Strategies. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. in press.

Murray, G., Neis, B., Palmer, C. T. & Schneider, D.
2008 “Mapping Cod: Fisheries Science, Fish Harvesters' Ecological Knowledge, and Cod Migrations in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence.” Human Ecology 36(4), in press.

Coe, K., & C. T. Palmer
2008 “Human Categories and Health: New Findings Regarding the Power of the Concept of Ethnicity.” In Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention, Second Edition. David S. Alberts & Lisa M. Hess, eds. Springer: New York. in press.

Goldberg, R., Steadman, L. B., & C. T. Palmer
2008 “Traditionalism and Human Evolutionary Success: The Example of Judaism.” In Judaism in Biological Perspective: Biblical Lore and Judaic Practices. Rick Goldberg, ed. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO. in press.

Coe, K., Palmer, C. T. & C. Pomianek
2008 “ET Phone Darwin: What Can an Evolutionary Understanding of Animal Communication and Art Contribute to Our Understanding of Methods For Extraterrestrial Communication?” In Culture in the Cosmos: Extraterrestrial Life and Society. Al Harrison and Doug Vakoch, eds. Berghahn Books: New York. in press.

(Published)

Steadman, L. B., & C. T. Palmer
2008 The Supernatural and Natural Selection: The Evolution of Religion. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO.

Ellis, L., Hershberger, S., Field E., Wersinger, S., Pellis S., Geary, D., Palmer, C. T., Hoyenga, K., Hetsroni, A. & K. Kazmer
2008 Sex Differences: Findings from Over a Century of Scientific Research. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.

Palmer, C. T., Steadman, L. B., Cassidy, C. & Coe, K.
2008 “Totemism, Metaphor and Tradition: Incorporating Cultural Traditions into Evolutionary Psychology Explanations of Religion.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 43(3):713-729.

VanPool, T., Palmer, C. T., & C. VanPool
2008 “Horned Serpents, Tradition, and the Tapestry of Culture.” In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Some Fundamental Issues. Pp. 77-90. Mike O’Brien, ed. Society for American Archaeology: Washington DC.

Palmer, C. T., Coe, K. & R. L. Wadley
2008 “In Belief We Trust: Why Anthropologists Abandon Skepticism When They Hear Claims About Supernatural Beliefs.” Skeptic Magazine 14(1): 60-65.

Murray, G. D., Neis, B., Ings, D., Schneider, D., Whalen, J., Gosse, K., & C. T. Palmer
2008 “Opening the Black Box: Methods, Procedures, and Challenges in the Historical Reconstruction of Marine Socio-Ecological Systems.” In Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research for a World on the Edge. Pp. 100-120. B. Neis & J. Lutz, eds. McGill-Queens Press: Montreal.

Palmer, C. T., Sattenspiel, L., & C. Cassidy
2007 “Boats, Trains, and Immunity: The Spread of the Spanish Flu on the Island of Newfoundland.” Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 22:473-504.

Steadman, L. B. & C. T. Palmer
2007 “Selection, Traditions, Kinship, and Ancestor Worship: Key Concepts in the Evolution of Religion.” In The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques. Pp. 319-325. Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, Karen Wyman, eds. The Collins Foundation Press: Santa Margarita, CA.

Palmer, C. T., & C. Pomianek
2007 “Applying Signaling Theory to Traditional Cultural Rituals: The Example of Newfoundland Mumming.” Human Nature 18(4):295-312.

Palmer, C. T. & R. L. Wadley
2007 “Local Environmental Knowledge, Talk, and Skepticism: Using ‘LES’ to Distinguish ‘LEK’ from ‘LET’ in Newfoundland.” Human Ecology 35(5): 749-760.

Coe, K., & C. T. Palmer
2007 “The Words of Our Ancestors: Kinship, Tradition, and Moral Codes.” World Cultures 16(1):2-32.

Thornhill R., & C. T. Palmer
2007 Una Historia Natural De La Violacion. Oceano De Mexico: Mexico City.
(Spanish translation of A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.)

Palmer, C. T., Wright, J., Wright, S. A., Cassidy, C., VanPool, T. & K. Coe
2006 “The Many Manipulations of Morty Mouse: Children’s Stories and the Parental Encouragement of Altruism.” Journal of Anthropological Research 62(2):235-257.

Palmer, C. T., Steadman, L. B., & C. Cassidy
2006 “Traditional Religious Ritual Sacrifice: Cultural Materialism, Costly Signaling, or Descendant-Leaving Strategy?” Journal of Ritual Studies 20(2):33-42.

Palmer, C. T., Steadman, L. B., & K. Coe
2006 "More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage." Structure and Dynamics 1(2), article 4:1-16.

Coe, K., Aiken, N., & C. T. Palmer
2006 “Once Upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories.” Anthropological Forum 16(1):21-40.

Wadley, R., Pashia, A., & C. T. Palmer
2006 “Religious Scepticism and its Social Context: An Analysis of Iban Shamanism.” Anthropological Forum 16(1):41-54.

Thornhill, R., & C. T. Palmer
2006 (Japanese Translation of) A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Seitosha Publishing Co. LTD: Tokyo.

Thornhill, R. & C. T. Palmer
2006 “Is the Motive to Rape Biological? (reprinted section of A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (MIT Press, 2000)” In Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Gender, third edition. J. W. White, ed., pp. 35-41. McGraw-Hill: New York.

(Research Reports, Commentaries, Book Reviews)

Palmer, C. T., Wolff, B., & C. Cassidy
2008 Cultural Heritage Tourism Along the Viking Trail: An Analysis of Tourist Brochures for Attractions on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. Research Report, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, in press.

Palmer, C. T.
2006 “The Peacemaking Primate?” Invited book review of The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions about War and Violence. by Douglas P. Fry. Oxford University Press: New York. Evolutionary Psychology, 4:138-141.