Martin Daly is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at
McMaster University
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in
Hamilton, Ontario
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, Canada, and author of many influential papers on
evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evol ...
. His current research topics include an evolutionary perspective on risk-taking and interpersonal violence, especially male-male conflict and family violence. He and his wife, the late
Margo Wilson, were formerly editors-in-chief of the journal ''
Evolution and Human Behavior'' and presidents of the
Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
He was named a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada in 1998.
Daly is one of the main researchers of the
Cinderella effect.
Books
(All books except ''Killing the Competition'' co-authored with
Margo Wilson)
* ''Sex, Evolution, and Behaviour'' (1978)
* ''Homicide'' (1988)
* ''The truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian view of parental love.'' (1998)
* ''Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide'' (2016)
References
External links
Personal web siteEvolution & Human BehaviorCurriculum vitae*
1944 births
Living people
Evolutionary psychologists
Human evolution theorists
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Canadian psychologists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
McMaster University faculty
Scientists from Toronto
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