Robert Turner Boyd (born February 11, 1948) is an American

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

. He is professor of the

School of Human Evolution and Social Change The Industrial Arts Building on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Arizona, later known as the Anthropology Building and now known as the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Regi ...

(SHESC) at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

(ASU). His research interests include evolutionary psychology and in particular the evolutionary roots of culture. Together with his primatologist wife,

Joan B. Silk Joan B. Silk (born December 16, 1953) is an American primatologist, Regents Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University . Her research interests include evolutionary anthropology, animal beh ...

(who is also a professor in SHESC at ASU), he wrote the textbook ''How Humans Evolved''.

Life

Boyd was born in San Francisco. He studied physics at the University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1970). In 1975, he completed a Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California, Davis. From 1980 to 1984, he was assistant professor of the Department of Forestry and

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. Afterwards, he taught two years in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. From 1988 to 2012, Boyd was on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Anthropology. He is currently a professor at the

Books

* * Also published by Fünfte Auflage in 2008. * * * *

External links

Faculty page at ASU
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, Robert American anthropologists University of California, Los Angeles faculty 1948 births Living people Cognitive science of religion University of California, Davis alumni