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

Tooby received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1989 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University Of California, Santa Barbara .

In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and ''. 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.


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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. (in press). ''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. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. ''Cognition, 50''(1-3), 41-77.

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.


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