Publications

• Douglas Jones (2022). Yet another view of Trobriand kin categories: from optimality to conceptual structure. Kinship. Vol. 2(1). Published, 01/2022.
  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hn3r2cv
• Douglas Jones (2021). Barbarigenesis and the collapse of complex societies: Rome and after. PLoS ONE. Vol. 16(9), e0254240. Published, 09/2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254240
• Doug Jones (2021). The moral grammar of marriage rules. International Journal of Language and Culture. Accepted, 09/2021.
• Doug Jones (2018). Kin selection and ethnic group selection. Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol. 39, 9-18. Published, 01/2018.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.08.004
• Kinship in mind: Three approaches. in Focality and Extension in Kinship: Essays in Memory of Harold Scheffler Warren Shapiro, editor, Australian National University Press, pp. 343-367. Accepted, 01/2017.
• Jones, Doug. 2016. Socially enforced nepotism: How norms and reputation can amplify kin altruism. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0155596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone/0155596. Published, 06/15/2016.
• Review of Crow-Omaha: New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis (Thomas Trautmann and Peter M. Whitely, editors, 2012, Tucson: University of Arizona Press) in Anthropos 109(2):745-746. Published, 09/2014.
• Modes of interaction and social glue. A comment on "Three wishes for the world" (Harvey Whitehouse) Cliodynamics 4(2):311-313. Published, 07/2013.
• History and group consciousness. Social Evolution Forum. Published, 07/16/2012.
  http://socialevolutionforum.com/2012/07/16/
• Kinship. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, 2nd edition. V. S. Ramachandran, editor. New York: Academic Press. Published, 03/2012.
• The matrilocal tribe: An organization of demic expansion. Human Nature 22(2):177-200. Published, 04/2011.
  http://www.springerlink.com/index/v4388un116wk2w1u...
• "Grammars of kinship and color: Cognitive universals and optimal communication", in Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. University of Utah Press. Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic, editors pp. 196-211. Published, 12/2010.
  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-...
• "Per Hage and the renaissance in kinship studies", Bojka Milicic, coauthor, in Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. University of Utah Press. Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic, editors pp. 3-10. Published, 12/2010.
  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-...
• Kinship, Language, and Prehistory: Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies. University of Utah Press (coeditor Bojka Milicic). Published, 12/2010.
  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-...
• Kinship. in International Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. V. S. Ramachandran, ed. Accepted, 11/2010.
• Human kinship, from conceptual structure to grammar. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33(5):367-416 (with BBS commentary). Published, 10/2010.
  http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A790r13f
• "Looks, and living kinds: Varieties of racial cognition in Bahia, Brazil". Journal of Cognition and Culture 9(3):247-269. Published, 2009.
  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true...

Presentations

• The unity of the sibling group: A view from evolutionary theory XIV Annual Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). Leticia, Colombia. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/2023.
• Kin altruism is a public good. Workshop on Kinship and Social/Economic Behavior, Chapman University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2020.
• Barbarigenesis and the collapse of complex societies. Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Utah, November. Presentation, Presented, 11/2017.
• Kinship thinking as core cognition. UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture Speaker Series, University of California, Los Angeles. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2017.
• Marriage rules and moral grammar. Workshop on Kinship, Cognition, and Practice, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle an der Salle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2016.
• Kinship core cognition. Workshop on Kinship, Cognition, and Practice, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle an der Salle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2016.
• From core cognition to kinship. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/2016.
• Kinship core cognition. Northwest Ecology, Evolution, and Human Behavior Symposium, Boise, Idaho. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/2016.
• Kinship, reputation and rules. Plenary Adress. Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2014.
• Genes, norms, and uniquely human kinship. Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Utah. Presentation, Presented, 09/2013.
• Socially enforced nepotism. Northwest Evolution, Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/2013.
• Kinship, marriage rules, and the “moral grammar” hypothesis. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Conference Paper, Presented, 12/2012.
• 2 1/2 cycles: The evolution of social complexity over the medium-long run. Modeling Social Complexity Workshop. National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS). University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 02/2012.
• Linguistic grammar and moral grammar: The case of kinship. Special session on Optimality Theory as a General Cognitive Architecture. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/2011.
• "The matrilocal tribe: An organization of demic expansion". American Association of Anthropology, Annual meeting, Special session on kinship. Conference Paper, Presented, 2009.

Geographical Regions of Interest

• Brazil