John Tooby
John Tooby (born July 26, 1952 in Saint Paul , Minnesota ) is an American anthropologist . Together with his wife Leda Cosmides , he is the founder and director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Tooby and Cosmides are considered the founding figures of modern evolutionary psychology .
Life
Tooby studied behavioral biology and experimental psychology at Harvard University from 1975, and in 1989 he obtained his PhD in biological anthropology also at Harvard. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University , Tooby joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990. From 1999 to 2001 he was President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society .
Tooby's main field of work is evolutionary psychology, i.e. the study of the human mind from an evolutionary perspective. Tooby, together with Cosmides, deals with fundamental debates such as the question of the modularity of the mind and the relationship between evolutionary psychology and neuroscience . On the other hand, he also works on specific projects such as evolutionary psychological research into partner choice or the detection of lies and fraudulent behavior.
Fonts (selection)
- J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby: The Adapted Mind. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992
- L. Cosmides and J. Tooby: Universal Minds. Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology. (Darwinism Today Series) . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London and Yale University Press, Yale 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about John Tooby in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- John Tooby , website
- John Tooby , at Center for Evolutionary Psychology
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| SURNAME | Tooby, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Paul, Minnesota |