Robert Boyd (anthropologist)

Robert Boyd ( born February 11, 1948 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist. He is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA). His research interests include evolutionary psychology, and in particular the evolutionary roots of culture. Along with Joan B. Silk, he is the author of the textbook How Humans Evolved.

Life

Boyd initially studied physics (BA, 1970) at the University of California, San Diego. In 1975 he received his PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. 1980-84 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Forest and Environmental Sciences at Duke University. He then taught for two years at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. Since 1988, Boyd is at the Department of Anthropology at UCLA.

• Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson: Culture and the Evolutionary Process. University Of Chicago Press, 1985. ISBN 0226069338th
• Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk: How Humans Evolved. WW Norton, 1996. Fifth Edition, 2008. ISBN 0,393,932,710th
• Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd: Not by Genes Alone: How culture Transformed human evolution. University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 0226712125th
• Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson: The Origin and Evolution of Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 019518145X.
• Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis (eds.): The Foundations of Human sociality: Economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0,199,262,047th
• Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Ernst Fehr, Robert Boyd (ed.): Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The foundations of cooperation in economic life. MIT Press, 2004. ISBN 0262572370th