Jerome H. Barkow is a Canadian

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who has made important contributions to the field of

evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolv ...

. He received a BA in

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

from

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in 1964 and a PhD in Human Development from the

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in 1970. He is Professor of

Social Anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

at Dalhousie University and a Distinguished International Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture,

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). He also serves on the Board of Directors of

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. Barkow has published on topics ranging from sex workers in

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to the kinds of sentients

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might find. He is best known as the author of ''Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture'' (1989). In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and

John Tooby John Tooby (born 1952) is an American anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology. Biography Tooby received his PhD in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University i ...

, Barkow edited the influential book '' The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture''. In 2006, he edited ''Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists''.

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