2017

Boyd, Robert, Hochberg, Michael E., Marquet, Pablo A. and Wagner, Andreas (2017) Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372 (1735).

2019

Derex, Maxime, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Boyd, Robert and Mesoudi, Alex (2019) Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology. Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 3 (n° 5). pp. 446-452.

2020

Derex, Maxime and Boyd, Robert (2020) Technical reasoning alone does not take humans this far. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 43.

2025

Yan, Minhua, Li, Zhizhong, Li, Yuanmei, Boyd, Robert and Mathew, Sarah (2025) A norm about harvest division is maintained by a desire to follow tradition, not by social policing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122 (n° 25).

Derex, Maxime, Bonnefon, Jean-François, Boyd, Robert, McElreath, Richard and Mesoudi, Alex (2025) Social learning preserves both useful and useless theories by canalizing learners’ exploration. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 292 (n°2039).