JEROME H. BARKOW

BA (CUNY), MA, PhD (Chicago),  Professor Emeritus

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Profile

Professor Barkow is a sociocultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in evolution and human nature and in the anthropologies of food and of health. The connecting theme of his publications is that our evolved psychology underlies human society and culture. He has conducted field research in West Africa, Nova Scotia, and Indonesia, and is currently collaborating on an analysis of mass media and gossip from an evolutionary perspective.  He has been appointed a Distinguished International Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast.

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Publications

Forthcoming. With Peter Hejl, eds. You Can’t Turn It Off: Media, Mind, Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

Forthcoming. "Evolution, Altruism and Ethnocentrism Among Extraterrestrials: A Thought Experiment." To appear in Encoding Altruism: Dimensions of Interstellar Message Composition. Douglas A. Vakoch, ed.

2006. Alexander Leighton and the Evolutionary Perspective. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43: 45-55.

2006. Editor. Missing the Revolution: Evolutionary Psychology for Social Scientists. New York: Oxford University Press.

2006. "Sometimes the bus does wait." Editor's introduction in, Missing the Revolution: Evolutionary Psychology for Social Scientists, pp. 3-59. New York: Oxford University Press.

2003   “Biology is destiny only if we ignore it.” World Futures 59:173-188.

2001 (First author, with seven other authors) "Social Competition, Social Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More about Cooking than about Nutrition." In The Origins of Human Social Institutions. W.G. Runciman, ed. Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 110, pp. 119-147. London: British Academy.

2001  "Universalien und Evolutionäre Psychologie." In Universalien und Konstruktivismus, pp. 126-138. Peter M. Hejl, Hg. Universalien und Konstruktivismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag. ("Universals and Evolutionary Psychology." In Peter M. Hejl, ed. Universals and Constructivism, pp. 126-138.)

2000.  "Do Extraterrestrials Have Sex (and Intelligence)? "In Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Reproductive Behavior, Vol. 907, 164-181 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, D. LeCroy and P.
Moller (eds.).

1992.  With Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, co-editors.  The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.  New York: Oxford University Press.

1992. "Beneath new culture is old psychology." In The Adapted Mind. Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.  J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides and J. Tooby.  New York, Oxford University Press: 626-637.

1989.  Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.