Robert Boyd (anthropologist)
Robert Boyd (born February 11, 1948 in San Francisco ) is an American anthropologist . He is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests are in evolutionary psychology and especially the evolutionary roots of culture . Together with Joan B. Silk he is the author of the textbook How Humans Evolved .
Life
Boyd first studied physics ( BA , 1970) at the University of California, San Diego . In 1975 he received his PhD in ecology from the University of California, Davis . 1980-84 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest and Environmental Sciences at Duke University . He then taught for two years in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University . Boyd has been with UCLA's Department of Anthropology since 1988.
Books
- Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson : Culture and the Evolutionary Process . University Of Chicago Press, 1985. ISBN 0226069338 .
- Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk: How Humans Evolved . WW Norton, 1996. Fifth edition 2008. ISBN 0393932710 .
- Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd: Not by Genes Alone: How culture transformed human evolution . University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 0226712125 .
- Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures . Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 019518145X .
- Joseph Henrich , Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles , Colin Camerer , Ernst Fehr , Herbert Gintis (Eds.): The Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies . Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0199262047 .
- Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Ernst Fehr, Robert Boyd (Eds.): Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The foundations of cooperation in economic life . MIT Press, 2004. ISBN 0262572370 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyd, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |