Biography:Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow | |
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| Born | January 18, 1944 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 30, 2024 (aged 80) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Known for | Evolutionary psychology |
Jerome H. Barkow (January 18, 1944 – April 30, 2024) was a Canadian anthropologist who was an early pioneer in the field of evolutionary psychology.[1] He was most recently a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University.[2]
Biography
Barkow received a BA in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1964 and a PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1970. Formerly a professor of Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, he retired as professor emeritus in 2008, and was an honorary professor at Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) from 2010 to 2017.[2]
Barkow published on topics ranging from sex workers in Nigeria to the kinds of sentients SETI might find. He is best known as the author of Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture (1989).[3] In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Barkow edited the influential book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.[4] In 2006, he edited Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists.[5]
Barkow died at the age of 80 on April 30, 2024 from esophageal cancer.[6][7]
See also
References
- ↑ O’Gorman, Rick (2021). "Jerome H. Barkow". in Shackelford, T.K.; Weekes-Shackelford, V.A.. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_196.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Curriculum vitae, Dalhousie University, March 9, 2021, https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/sociology-social-anthropology/FacultyProfileFiles/CV_Barkow_2021.pdf, retrieved 2023-05-13
- ↑ Reviews of Darwin, Sex, and Status:
- John Barresi, Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, doi:10.1037/h0084638
- Laura Betzig, Contemporary Sociology, doi:10.2307/2072119, JSTOR 2072119
- Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, "Psychology, Culture, and Evolution", Evolution, doi:10.2307/2409686, JSTOR 2409686
- Bernard G. Campbell, Anthropologica, doi:10.2307/25605638, JSTOR 25605638
- Karen E. Chambers, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330840213
- Georges Guille-Escuret, L'Homme, JSTOR 25132958
- Michael Hammond, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, doi:10.2307/3341139, JSTOR 3341139
- Allan Mazur, American Journal of Sociology, JSTOR 2781121
- Pamela R. Willoughby, Culture, doi:10.7202/1081346ar
- ↑ Reviews of The Adapted Mind:
- Lee Blonder, American Anthropologist, JSTOR 679718
- Laureano Castro Nogueira & Miguel A. Toro Ibáñez, "Un intento de tomarse a Darwin en serio", Revista de libros, JSTOR 30231577
- Linda Mealey, Politics and the Life Sciences, JSTOR 4236072
- Steven Mithen, Journal of Anthropological Research, JSTOR 3631124
- David Sloan Wilson, The Quarterly Review of Biology, JSTOR 3037347
- ↑ Review of Missing the Revolution:
- William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology, doi:10.1086/519655, JSTOR 10.1086/519655
- ↑ "Jerome Harvey Barkow". Dignity Memorial. April 30, 2024. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/halifax-ns/jerome-barkow-11795147.
- ↑ "Professor Jerome Barkow 1944-2024". British Psychological Society. 2024-06-10. https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/professor-jerome-barkow-1944-2024.
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