John Tooby is an American

United States

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 anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides

Leda Cosmides

Leda Cosmides, is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology....

, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...

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Tooby received his Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and Jerome Barkow, Tooby edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

The Adapted Mind

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture is an edited volume, first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press, edited by Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby...

. Tooby and Cosmides also co-founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Center for Evolutionary Psychology is a research center co-founded and co-directed by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides and is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara....

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Tooby is currently working on a book on the evolution of sexual reproduction and genetic systems.

• Barkow, J., Cosmides, L.