John Tooby is an American anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped to pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology.

Tooby received his Ph.D from Harvard University and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and Jerome Barkow, Tooby edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Tooby and Cosmides also co-founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology.

Tooby is currently working on a book on the evolution of sexual reproduction and genetic systems.

Selected publications

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Books

Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., (eds) (1992) The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press)

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2000) Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press) Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology (Darwinism Today Series) (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Papers

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987) "From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link" in J. Dupre (Ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990) "The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments," Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992) "Cognitive adaptations for social exchange," in J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press)

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003) "Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations," in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (London: Macmillan)

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005) "Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations," in D. M. Buss (ed.), Evolutionary Psychology Handbook (New York: Wiley)

See also

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• Behavioural genetics
• Evolutionary psychology
• Human behavioral ecology
• Leda Cosmides
• capture-bonding

External links

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• John Tooby's Website
• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Full publication list with full text access
• "Them" - article on Cosmides, Tooby and Kurzban's research into the origin of racism, The Economist, December 13, 2001.