Jerome H. Barkow

{{Short description|Canadian anthropologist (1944-2024}}

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| name = Jerome H. Barkow

| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|01|18}}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|04|30|1944|01|18}}

| death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

| known_for = Evolutionary psychology

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Jerome H. Barkow (January 18, 1944 – April 30, 2024) was a Canadian anthropologist who was an early pioneer in the field of evolutionary psychology.{{cite encyclopedia |last=O’Gorman |first=Rick |year=2021 |title=Jerome H. Barkow |editor-last=Shackelford |editor-first=T.K. |editor2-last=Weekes-Shackelford |editor2-first=V.A. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science |publisher=Springer, Cham |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_196}}

He was most recently a professor emeritus at Dalhousie University.{{r|cv}}

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.{{r|cv}}

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).{{r|dss}} In 1992, together with Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Barkow edited the influential book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture.{{r|admin}} In 2006, he edited Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists.{{r|miss}}

Barkow died at the age of 80 on April 30, 2024 from esophageal cancer.{{cite web|date=April 30, 2024|title=Jerome Harvey Barkow|publisher=Dignity Memorial|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/halifax-ns/jerome-barkow-11795147|access-date=May 12, 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/professor-jerome-barkow-1944-2024 |title=Professor Jerome Barkow 1944-2024 |publisher=British Psychological Society |date=2024-06-10 |access-date=2025-05-12}}

See also

References

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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}}

{{citation|url=https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/sociology-social-anthropology/FacultyProfileFiles/CV_Barkow_2021.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=March 9, 2021|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=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}}

Review of Missing the Revolution:

  • William F. Zimmerman, The Quarterly Review of Biology, {{doi|10.1086/519655}}, {{jstor|10.1086/519655}}

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