Martin Daly (born November 15, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at

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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 regard to the ancestral problems they evolved ...

. 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 Margo Wilson (1942–2009) was a Canadian Evolutionary psychology, evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psy ...

, were formerly editors-in-chief of the journal ''

Evolution and Human Behavior ''Evolution and Human Behavior'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior, ranging from evolutionary psychology to evolutionary anthropolo ...

'' and presidents of the

Human Behavior and Evolution Society The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature — including ev ...

. He was named a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

in 1998. Daly is one of the main researchers of the

Cinderella effect In evolutionary psychology, the Cinderella effect describes the phenomenon of a higher incidence of child abuse and mistreatment by stepparents than biological parents. It takes its name from the fairy tale character Cinderella, a girl who is m ...

Books

(All books except ''Killing the Competition'' co-authored with

) * ''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 site

Evolution & Human Behavior

Curriculum vitae
* 1944 births Living people Evolutionary psychologists Human evolution theorists Human Behavior and Evolution Society Canadian psychologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Academic staff of McMaster University Scientists from Toronto University of Toronto alumni McGill University alumni {{psychologist-stub