Jerome H. Barkow (January 18, 1944 – April 30, 2024) was a Canadian

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who was an early pioneer in the field of

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. He was most recently a

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Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

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Barkow received a BA in

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from

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in 1964 and a PhD in Human Development from the

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in 1970. Formerly a professor of

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at Dalhousie University, he retired as professor emeritus in 2008, and was an honorary professor at

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(

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) from 2010 to 2017. Barkow published on topics ranging from sex workers in

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to the kinds of sentients

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might find. He is best known as the author of ''Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture'' (1989). In 1992, together with

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and

John Tooby John Tooby (July 26, 1952 – November 10, 2023) was an American anthropologist who, together with his psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, pioneered the field of evolutionary psychology. Biography Tooby received his PhD in Biological Anthropology ...

, Barkow edited the influential book '' The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture''. In 2006, he edited ''Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists''. Barkow died at the age of 80 on April 30, 2024 from

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1944 births 2024 deaths Brooklyn College alumni Human Behavior and Evolution Society University of Chicago alumni Canadian anthropologists Academic staff of Dalhousie University Evolutionary psychologists {{Canada-anthropologist-stub

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