Robert Boyd (anthropologist) explained

Robert T. Boyd
Birth Date:February 11, 1948
Birth Place:San Francisco, California
Nationality:American
Fields:Anthropology
Ecology
Alma Mater:University of California, Davis
University of California, San Diego
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Notable Students:Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath
Spouse:Joan B. Silk
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Robert Turner Boyd (born February 11, 1948) is an American anthropologist. He is professor of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests include evolutionary psychology and in particular the evolutionary roots of culture. Together with his primatologist wife, Joan B. Silk (who is also a professor in SHESC at ASU), he wrote the textbook How Humans Evolved.

Life

Boyd was born in San Francisco. He studied physics at the University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1970). In 1975, he completed a PhD in ecology at the University of California, Davis[1] . From 1980 to 1984, he was assistant professor of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Science at Duke University. Afterwards, he taught two years in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. From 1988 to 2012, Boyd was on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Anthropology. He is currently a professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

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Books

References

  1. Web site: Curriculum Vitae .
  2. Web site: 2020-08-05 . Robert Boyd . 2024-11-25 . UCLA Department of Anthropology . en-US.

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