1971 The Institution of Courtesanship in the Northern States of Nigeria. Geneva-Africa 10:58-73.
1972 Hausa Women and Islam. Canadian Journal of African Studies , Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 317-328.
1973 Darwinian Psychological Anthropology: A Biosocial Approach. Current Anthropology, Vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 373-388.
1973 Operationalizing the Concept Ethos. In Survey Research in Africa: Its Applications and Limits. William O'Barr, David H. Spain and Mark A. Tessler, eds. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, pp. 184-198.
1974 Special Editor for the Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Ethnology Society, March, 1974, Quebec. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
1974 Evaluation of Character and Social Control Among the Hausa. Ethos, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1- 14.
1974 With R.R. Larsen. Biosocial Anthropology. In Proceedings of the CES, March, 1974. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, pp. 115-134.
1975 Prestige and Culture: A Biosocial Interpretation. Current Anthropology , Vol. 16, no. 4 (Dec.), pp. 553-572.
1975 With Jim Freedman. Special Editor for the Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Canadian Ethnology Society, March, 1975, Winnipeg. Two vols. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada (Mercury Series).
1975 Strategies of Self-Esteem and Prestige in Maradi (Niger Republic). In Thomas R. Williams, ed. World Congress; Psychological Anthropology. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 373-388.
1976 Attention Structure and Internal Representations. In Michael R. Chance and Raymond R. Larsen, eds. The Social Structure of Attention. London: Wiley, pp. 203-219.
1976 The Generation of an Ethnic Split: A Hausa Case. Anthropos . Vol. 71, pp. 857-867.
1977 Human Ethology and Intra-Individual Systems. Social Science Information . Vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 133-145.
1977 Conformity to Ethos and Reproductive Success in Two Hausa Communities: An Empirical Evaluation. Ethos. Vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 409-425.
1978 The Hausa. In Richard Weekes, ed. Muslim Peoples: World Ethnographic Survey. Westport, Conn.: Green-Wood Press.
1978 Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A.I. Hallowell. Current Anthropology. Vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 99-118.
1978 Culture and Sociobiology. American Anthropologist. Vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 5-20.
1980 Sociobiology: Is This the New Theory of Human Nature? In Ashley Montague, ed. Sociobiology Examined. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-197.
1980 The Anthropology of Hostility. In Leon J. Saul, ed. Psychodynamics of Hostility (2nd ed.) New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
1980 Biological evolution of culturally patterned behavior. In Joan S. Lockard, ed. The Evolution of Human Social Behavior. New York: Elsevier, 1980, pp. 227-296.
1980 Self-Esteem and Culture. In Donald R. Omark, Daniel G. Freedman, and Frederick Strayer, eds. Dominance Relations: Ethological Perspectives on Human Conflict. New York: Garland Publishing Co.
1980 Evolutionary Biology, Human Fertility, and the Demographic Transition (with Nancy Burley). Ethology and Sociobiology 1:163-180.
1981 Evolution et sexualite humaine. In Claude Crepault, Joseph Levy and Henri Gratton. Sexologie contemporaine. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, pp. 103-118.
1982 Return to Nepotism: The Collapse of a Nigerian Gerontocracy. International Political Science Review. Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 33-49.
1982 Begged questions in behavior and evolution. In Davey, Graham, ed. Animal Models of Human Behavior: Conceptual, Evolutionary and Neurological Perspectives. Chichester: John Wiley & Son.
1982 Culture and Sociobiology. In Wiegele, T.C., ed. Biology and the Social Sciences. An Emerging Revolution. Boulder, Colorado: Westview , pp. 59-76. (Reprinted from the American Anthropologist.)
1984 The Distance Between Genes and Culture. Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 40, pp. 367-379. Reprinted in "Approaches to Culture and Society." Journal of Anthropological Research, Special Issue, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 373-385.
1984 Of False Dichotomies and Larger Frames. Commentary on B.F. Skinner, "The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Behavior." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7(4):680-681.
1986 Central Problems of Sociobiology. Commentary on D.R. Vining, Jr., "Social vs. Reproductive Success: The Central Theoretical Problem of Human Sociobiology." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9(1):188.
1988 With Jenny Blain. Father Involvement, Reproductive Strategies, and the Sensitive Period. In Sociobiology and Human Development. Kevin MacDonald, ed. New York: Garland, pp. 373-396.
1989 Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
1989 The Elastic Between Genes and Culture. Ethology and Sociobiology . Vol. 10, numbers 1-3, pp. 111-129.
1989 Special editor for Ethology and Sociobiology, "Evolved Constraints on Cultural Evolution." Volume 10, numbers 1-3.
1989 Interview with Alec Leighton. Anthropologica 31:237- 261.
1990 Beyond the DP/DSS Controversy. Ethology and Sociobiology . Vol. 11, numbers 4/5, pp. 341-351.
1991 Joinings, discontinuities, and details: Darwin, Sex, and Status revisited. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14(2):320- 334.
1991. The Origins of the Capacity for Culture. Journal of Ideas 2:59-62.
1991. Folk Psychology, Free Will and Evolution. Journal of Ideas 2:63-66
1992 With Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, co-editors. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
1992 With Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. Introduction. In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-15.
1992 Beneath new culture is old psychology. In The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 627-637.
1993 Regles de conduite et conduite de l'evolution. In Fondements Naturels de L'Ethique. Jean-Pierre Changeux, ed. Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, pp. 87-104.
1994 Evolutionary Psychological Anthropology. In Handbook of Psychological Anthropology. Philip K. Bock, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 121-138.
1996 The Elastic Between Genes and Culture. In McGee, R. Jon and Richard L. Warms, eds. Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. Mountain View (CA): Mayfield Publishing, pp. 374-390. (Reprinted from Ethology and Sociobiology, 1989.)
1997 Happiness in Evolutionary Perspective. In Uniting Psychology and Biology: Integrative Perspectives on Human Development, pp. 397-418. Nancy L. Segal, Glenn E. Weisfeld, and Carol C. Weisfeld, eds. American Psychological Association.
2000 Do Extraterrestrials Have Sex (and Intelligence)? In Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Reproductive Behavior, Volume 907, pp. 164-181 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, edited by Dori LeCroy and Peter Moller.
2001 Universalien und Evolutionäre Psychologie. In Universalien und Konstruktivismus, pp. 126-138. Peter M. Hejl, Hg. Universalien und Konstruktivismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. (Universals and Evolutionary Psychology. In Peter M. Hejl, ed. Universals and Constructivism, pp. 126-138.)
2001 (First author, with seven other authors) Social Competition,
Social
Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More about Cooking than about
Nutrition.
In The Origins of Human Social Institutions. W.G. Runciman, ed.
Proceedings
of the British Academy, vol. 110, pp. 119-147. London: British Academy.
2001 Why Can’t a Cetacean Be More Like a (Hu)Man? Commentary on
Rendell and Whitehead. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(2), pp. 324-325.
2003 Biology is destiny only if we ignore it. World Futures 59:173-188.
2006. Missing the
Revolution:
Darwinism for Social Scientists. Jerome H. Barkow, ed. New York:
Oxford University Press.
2006. Sometimes the Bus Does Wait (Editor's
Introduction to Missing the
Revolution, pp. 3-59.)
2006 Biology is Destiny Only if we Ignore It. Ervin Laszlo and
Peter Seidel, eds. Global Survival:
The Challenge And Its Implications for Thinking And Acting. New
York: Select Books, pp. 63-83.
2006 Alexander Leighton and the Evolutionary Perspective. Transcultural Psychiatry 43(1):
45-55.
n.d. Evolution, Altruism and Ethnocentrism Among
Extraterrestrials: A Thought Experiment. To appear in Encoding Altruism: Dimensions of
Interstellar Message Composition. Douglas A. Vakoch, ed.
Forthcoming.