Simon T Powers

An evolutionary model explaining the Neolithic transition from egalitarianism to leadership and despotism

Laurent Lehmann, Simon T. Powers, L. Lehmann, 2014, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

The co-evolution of social institutions, demography, and large-scale human cooperation.

Laurent Lehmann, Simon T. Powers, L. Lehmann, 2013, Ecology letters.

How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies

Laurent Lehmann, Simon T. Powers, Carel P van Schaik, 2016, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Punishment can promote defection in group-structured populations.

Simon T. Powers, Joanna J Bryson, J. Bryson, 2012, Journal of theoretical biology.

When is bigger better? The effects of group size on the evolution of helping behaviours

Laurent Lehmann, Simon T. Powers, L. Lehmann, 2017, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.