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Jerome H. Barkow

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Jerome H. Barkowis a Canadiananthropologistwho works in the field ofevolutionary psychology.He is aprofessor emeritusatDalhousie University.[1]

Barkow received a BA inPsychologyfromBrooklyn Collegein 1964 and a PhD in Human Development from theUniversity of Chicagoin 1970. Formerly a professor ofSocial Anthropologyat Dalhousie University, he retired as professor emeritus in 2008, and was an honorary professor atQueen's University Belfast(Northern Ireland) from 2010 to 2017.[1]

Barkow has published on topics ranging from sex workers inNigeriato the kinds of sentientsSETImight find. He is best known as the author ofDarwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture(1989).[2]In 1992, together withLeda CosmidesandJohn Tooby,Barkow edited the influential bookThe Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.[3]In 2006, he editedMissing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists.[4]

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  1. ^abCurriculum vitae(PDF),Dalhousie University, March 9, 2021,retrieved2023-05-13
  2. ^Reviews ofDarwin, Sex, and Status:
  3. ^Reviews ofThe Adapted Mind:
    • Lee Blonder,American Anthropologist,JSTOR679718
    • Laureano Castro Nogueira & Miguel A. Toro Ibáñez, "Un intento de tomarse a Darwin en serio",Revista de libros,JSTOR30231577
    • Linda Mealey,Politics and the Life Sciences,JSTOR4236072
    • Steven Mithen,Journal of Anthropological Research,JSTOR3631124
    • David Sloan Wilson,The Quarterly Review of Biology,JSTOR3037347
  4. ^Review ofMissing the Revolution: