Gillian Ruth Brown is a British psychologist and
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in Psychology and Neuroscience at the
University of St Andrews
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She is known for her research on the
evolutionary approaches to the study of human behavior
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Brown held a
Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship
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from 2006 to 2010.
Bibliography
* ''Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour'', Oxford University Press, 2002, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 1st edition
* ''Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour'', Oxford University Press, 2011, Kevin N. Laland and Gillian R. Brown, 2nd edition
See also
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Dual inheritance theory
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: gen ...
External links
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References
Living people
Academics of the University of St Andrews
21st-century British psychologists
Evolutionary psychologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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