Cara L. Evans

968 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 472 citations indexed

About

Cara L. Evans is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cara L. Evans has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 472 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Cultural Studies and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Cara L. Evans's work include Language and cultural evolution (5 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (4 papers). Cara L. Evans is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (5 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (4 papers). Cara L. Evans collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Cara L. Evans's co-authors include Kevin N. Laland, Luke Rendell, Ignacio de la Torre, Laura Chouinard‐Thuly, Sally E. Street, Catharine Cross, Hannah M. Lewis, Natalie Uomini, Richard Kearney and Thomas J. H. Morgan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Cara L. Evans

8 papers receiving 456 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

2015 319 citations Thomas J. H. Morgan, Natalie Uomini et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cara L. Evans United Kingdom	7	229	205	134	121	90	8	472
Laura Chouinard‐Thuly Canada	5	194 0.8×	146 0.7×	82 0.6×	82 0.7×	81 0.9×	8	454
Sonia Ragir United States	8	186 0.8×	119 0.6×	52 0.4×	187 1.5×	53 0.6×	12	422
Lewis Dean United Kingdom	9	385 1.7×	346 1.7×	316 2.4×	203 1.7×	40 0.4×	11	686
Natalie Uomini Germany	12	495 2.2×	220 1.1×	92 0.7×	219 1.8×	156 1.7×	27	893
Mary LeCron Foster United States	5	133 0.6×	162 0.8×	69 0.5×	146 1.2×	83 0.9×	15	423
L. S. Premo Germany	12	159 0.7×	180 0.9×	169 1.3×	19 0.2×	212 2.4×	22	548
Nada Khreisheh United States	8	255 1.1×	116 0.6×	35 0.3×	74 0.6×	210 2.3×	9	452
Lydia V. Luncz Germany	16	718 3.1×	101 0.5×	113 0.8×	151 1.2×	306 3.4×	41	915
Jack L. Harris United States	4	241 1.1×	42 0.2×	42 0.3×	51 0.4×	131 1.5×	6	357
Grover S. Krantz United States	8	258 1.1×	172 0.8×	44 0.3×	258 2.1×	69 0.8×	19	615

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cara L. Evans

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Evans, Cara L., et al.. (2023). The influence of task difficulty, social tolerance and model success on social learning in Barbary macaques. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1176–1176. 11 indexed citations

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Evans, Cara L., Simon J. Greenhill, Joseph Watts, et al.. (2021). The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200056–20200056. 28 indexed citations

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Evans, Cara L., et al.. (2021). When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 212. 105229–105229. 3 indexed citations

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Fedorova, Natalia, Cara L. Evans, & Richard W. Byrne. (2017). Living in stable social groups is associated with reduced brain size in woodpeckers ( Picidae ). Biology Letters. 13(3). 20170008–20170008. 22 indexed citations

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Evans, Cara L., Kevin N. Laland, Malinda Carpenter, & Rachel L. Kendal. (2017). Selective copying of the majority suggests children are broadly “optimal‐” rather than “over‐” imitators. Developmental Science. 21(5). e12637–e12637. 21 indexed citations

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Morgan, Thomas J. H., Natalie Uomini, Luke Rendell, et al.. (2015). Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6029–6029. 319 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laland, Kevin N., Neeltje J. Boogert, & Cara L. Evans. (2013). Niche construction, innovation and complexity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 11. 71–86. 34 indexed citations

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Caldwell, Christine A., Kerstin Schillinger, Cara L. Evans, & Lydia M. Hopper. (2012). End state copying by humans (Homo sapiens): Implications for a comparative perspective on cumulative culture.. Journal of comparative psychology. 126(2). 161–169. 34 indexed citations

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