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John Tooby is an American
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The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides

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

Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain Mind and psychology Trait theorys?such as memory, perception, or language?as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection....
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Tooby received his Ph.D from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
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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.








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John Tooby is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides

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

Evolutionary psychology attempts to explain Mind and psychology Trait theorys?such as memory, perception, or language?as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection....
.

Tooby received his Ph.D from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
 in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
.

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....
.

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

Selected publications


Books

  • Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., (Eds.) (1992). The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press). Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology(Darwinism Today Series). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.


Papers

  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987). From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. In J. Dupre (Ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992) Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50(1-3), 41-77.
  • Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan.
  • Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology Handbook. New York: Wiley.


See also

  • Behavioural genetics
    Behavioural genetics

    Behavioural genetics is the field of biology that studies the role of genetics in animal behaviour. The field is an overlap of genetics, ethology and psychology....
  • Human behavioral ecology
    Human behavioral ecology

    Human behavioral ecology or human evolutionary ecology applies the principles of evolutionary theory and Optimization to the study of human behavioral and cultural diversity....
  • Standard social science model
    Standard social science model

    The term the Standard Social Science Model was first introduced to a wide audience in the 1992 edited volume The Adapted Mind, and is commonly used by proponents of evolutionary psychology to describe a "blank slate" or "cultural determinist" perspective they attribute to the social sciences that developed during the 20th century....


External links

Websites


Articles and media
  • - article on Cosmides, Tooby and Kurzban's research into the origin of racism, The Economist
    The Economist

    The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
    , December 13, 2001.
  • audio of a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

    The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara.KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world....
    , May 20, 1998 (with Cosmides).
  • audio or video of a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

    The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is an institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara.KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world....
    , October 29, 2003 (with Cosmides).