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James S. Boster

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Publications

40

Citations

3.3K

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30

Active since

1982

Affiliations

University of Pittsburgh(Current)

University of Connecticut

East Carolina University

University of California, Irvine

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

James S. Boster is an author at University of Pittsburgh specializing in social sciences, life sciences, and anthropology.

Publications per year

1982–2014

40

Publications

40

Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs

Richard Sosis, Helen M. Kress, James S. Boster · Evolution and Human Behavior · 2007 · 280 citations

Social Sciences, Social Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology +14

Modeling 3D Facial Shape from DNA

Peter Claes, Denise K. Liberton, Katleen Daniels et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2014 · 262 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Genetics +13

Form or Function: A Comparison of Expert and Novice Judgments of Similarity Among Fish

James S. Boster, Jeffrey C. Johnson · American Anthropologist · 1989 · 231 citations

Life Sciences, Fisheries, Fish Biology +9

The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

Asifa Majid, Melissa Bowerman, Miriam van Staden et al. · Cognitive Linguistics · 2007 · 230 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Semantics +16

The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking

Asifa Majid, James S. Boster, Melissa Bowerman · Cognition · 2008 · 227 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Social Psychology +14

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