Jerome H Barkow
Biographic Data
| ID | 119407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome H Barkow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome H |
| FAMILY NAME | Barkow |
| SIGNATURE | BARKOW J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1733-8799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior
The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook's goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading…
Missing the revolution: Darwinism for social scientists
1. Introduction: Sometimes the Bus Does Wait PART I: GENDER 2. Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology 3. The Male Flash of Anger: Violent Response to Transgression as an Example of the Intersection of Evolved Psychology and Culture PART II: CONTROVERSIES 4. Evolutionary Explanation: Between Science and Values 5. Making Hay out of Straw? Real and Imagined Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology PART III: HUMAN AND NONHUMAN PRIMATES 6. Behavioral Ec…
Alexander Leighton and the Evolutionary Perspective
A comparison of the theoretical approach of Alexander H. Leighton with that of current work in evolutionary psychology and psychiatry reveals key similarities. For both, a core human nature/ psychology is assumed to underlie human behavior. Individuals may vary with regard to the salience of components of that core, which in any event are differentially expressed in response to varying cultural/environmental factors. As with many of today's evolu…
Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond
Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. Ullica Segerstrile. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.493 pp
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799
Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach
Preface. Introduction. 1. How to be a True Materialist in Anthropology. 2. Interpreting and Explaining Cultural Representations. 3. Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations. 4. The Epidemiology of Beliefs. 5. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution. 6. Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity. Conclusion: What is at Stake?. Notes. References. Index
The Adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the hum…
Darwin, Sex and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Darwin Sex Status
The Distance between Genes and Culture
Sociobiologists often underestimate the distance between genes and culture. Previous works have argued that cultural traits often reduce rather than enhance the biological fitness of their participants and that individuals frequently make fitness-reducing decisions. This article adds the argument that interpreting culturally patterned behaviors as amplified inclusive fitness strategies requires specification of the individual-level behavior trait…
Return to Nepotism: The Collapse of a Nigerian Gerontocracy
Altruism has to do with ethics, religion, and philosophy. But, according to a number of contemporary biologists, altruism is mostly about biology. They argue that humans aid kin (nepotistic altruism) because it increases their own inclusive fitness—i.e., their genetic representation in the next generation-and they aid non-kin only if such aid is likely to be returned at some time (reciprocal altruism) so that it also can increase their own inclus…
Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and Comments and Reply]
A. I. Hallowell tried to turn anthropology towards a sociobiology while the former field was still strongly opposed to any consideration of the evolution of human behavior. His work is of more than historical interest, however, because he stressed the evolution of the human ability to internalize social norms and evaluate self and others in terms of them. This ability is the basis of our species's trait of cultural rather than biological adaptati…
Culture and Sociobiology
Sociobiological concepts are easily misapplied to human behavior because the latter is culturally as well as biologically organized. Because biological and cultural evolution are two linked but conceptually distinct processes, sociobiology is more readily applied to the evolution of cultural capacity than to contemporary cultural behavior. The extent to which the latter is consistent with sociobiological expectation must be determined empirically…
Human ethology and intra-individual systems
Conformity to Ethos and Reproductive Success in Two Hausa Communities: An Empirical Evaluation
Livres/Books
Ethnology: Mutumin Kirkii: The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa. Anthony H. M. Kirk‐Greene
Structures normatives et relations électives. Étude d'une communauté villageoise haoussa
Newsletter Delivery in Canada Criticized
Livres/Books
Prestige and Culture: A Biosocial Interpretation [and Comments and Replies]
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
The Mountain People
Evaluation of Character and Social Control Among the Hausa
Prestige and Culture: A Biosocial Interpretation [and Comments and Replies]
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
Culture and Sociobiology
Sociobiological concepts are easily misapplied to human behavior because the latter is culturally as well as biologically organized. Because biological and cultural evolution are two linked but conceptually distinct processes, sociobiology is more readily applied to the evolution of cultural capacity than to contemporary cultural behavior. The extent to which the latter is consistent with sociobiological expectation must be determined empirically…
The Distance between Genes and Culture
Sociobiologists often underestimate the distance between genes and culture. Previous works have argued that cultural traits often reduce rather than enhance the biological fitness of their participants and that individuals frequently make fitness-reducing decisions. This article adds the argument that interpreting culturally patterned behaviors as amplified inclusive fitness strategies requires specification of the individual-level behavior trait…
Conformity to Ethos and Reproductive Success in Two Hausa Communities: An Empirical Evaluation
Evaluation of Character and Social Control Among the Hausa
Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and Comments and Reply]
A. I. Hallowell tried to turn anthropology towards a sociobiology while the former field was still strongly opposed to any consideration of the evolution of human behavior. His work is of more than historical interest, however, because he stressed the evolution of the human ability to internalize social norms and evaluate self and others in terms of them. This ability is the basis of our species's trait of cultural rather than biological adaptati…
The Causal Interpretation of Correlation in Cross-Cultural Studies1
Return to Nepotism: The Collapse of a Nigerian Gerontocracy
Altruism has to do with ethics, religion, and philosophy. But, according to a number of contemporary biologists, altruism is mostly about biology. They argue that humans aid kin (nepotistic altruism) because it increases their own inclusive fitness—i.e., their genetic representation in the next generation-and they aid non-kin only if such aid is likely to be returned at some time (reciprocal altruism) so that it also can increase their own inclus…
Darwinian Psychological Anthropology: A Biosocial Approach [and Comments and Reply]
Psychological anthropology has contributed more to cross-cultural psychology and psychiatry than to its parent discipline. Needed is a biosocial psychological anthropology stressing the analysis of social relationships and focusing on the individual in his natural social context rather than on isolated personality mechanisms or grand culture-and-personality theoretical schemes. Human social relationships and structures may be viewed as having bee…
Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Human ethology and intra-individual systems
Hausa Women and Islam
The impact of Islamization on the role of Hausa women in Nigeria was investigated by comparing the role and status of women in 2 Hausa subcultures. One group was heavily influenced by Islamic traditions while the other group was not. The major difference between the women in the two groups was not the lower status of the women in the Muslim group but rather the marked separation between the sexes and the solidarity among women in the Muslim group…
Ethnology: Mutumin Kirkii: The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa. Anthony H. M. Kirk‐Greene
Muslims and Maguzawa In North Central State, Nigeria: An Ethnographic Comparison
This paper attempts to compare briefly two subcultures in North Central State, Nigeria. The are a linguistic group numbering perhaps fifteen million, distributed mainly in the Northern States of Nigeria but with important concentrations in Southern Niger and, to a lesser extent, Ghana. ' The extent of ethnographic variation among Hausa-speaking groups precludes our use of the term Hausa culture: civilization, implying as it does both unity and di…
The Causal Interpretation of Correlation in Cross-Cultural Studies1
Hausa Women and Islam
The impact of Islamization on the role of Hausa women in Nigeria was investigated by comparing the role and status of women in 2 Hausa subcultures. One group was heavily influenced by Islamic traditions while the other group was not. The major difference between the women in the two groups was not the lower status of the women in the Muslim group but rather the marked separation between the sexes and the solidarity among women in the Muslim group…
Darwinian Psychological Anthropology: A Biosocial Approach [and Comments and Reply]
Psychological anthropology has contributed more to cross-cultural psychology and psychiatry than to its parent discipline. Needed is a biosocial psychological anthropology stressing the analysis of social relationships and focusing on the individual in his natural social context rather than on isolated personality mechanisms or grand culture-and-personality theoretical schemes. Human social relationships and structures may be viewed as having bee…
Muslims and Maguzawa In North Central State, Nigeria: An Ethnographic Comparison
This paper attempts to compare briefly two subcultures in North Central State, Nigeria. The are a linguistic group numbering perhaps fifteen million, distributed mainly in the Northern States of Nigeria but with important concentrations in Southern Niger and, to a lesser extent, Ghana. ' The extent of ethnographic variation among Hausa-speaking groups precludes our use of the term Hausa culture: civilization, implying as it does both unity and di…
Evaluation of Character and Social Control Among the Hausa
On Darwinian Psychological Anthropology
Newsletter Delivery in Canada Criticized
Livres/Books
Prestige and Culture: A Biosocial Interpretation [and Comments and Replies]
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
The Mountain People
Livres/Books
Ethnology: Mutumin Kirkii: The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa. Anthony H. M. Kirk‐Greene
Structures normatives et relations électives. Étude d'une communauté villageoise haoussa
Human ethology and intra-individual systems
Conformity to Ethos and Reproductive Success in Two Hausa Communities: An Empirical Evaluation
Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and Comments and Reply]
A. I. Hallowell tried to turn anthropology towards a sociobiology while the former field was still strongly opposed to any consideration of the evolution of human behavior. His work is of more than historical interest, however, because he stressed the evolution of the human ability to internalize social norms and evaluate self and others in terms of them. This ability is the basis of our species's trait of cultural rather than biological adaptati…
Culture and Sociobiology
Sociobiological concepts are easily misapplied to human behavior because the latter is culturally as well as biologically organized. Because biological and cultural evolution are two linked but conceptually distinct processes, sociobiology is more readily applied to the evolution of cultural capacity than to contemporary cultural behavior. The extent to which the latter is consistent with sociobiological expectation must be determined empirically…
Return to Nepotism: The Collapse of a Nigerian Gerontocracy
Altruism has to do with ethics, religion, and philosophy. But, according to a number of contemporary biologists, altruism is mostly about biology. They argue that humans aid kin (nepotistic altruism) because it increases their own inclusive fitness—i.e., their genetic representation in the next generation-and they aid non-kin only if such aid is likely to be returned at some time (reciprocal altruism) so that it also can increase their own inclus…
The Distance between Genes and Culture
Sociobiologists often underestimate the distance between genes and culture. Previous works have argued that cultural traits often reduce rather than enhance the biological fitness of their participants and that individuals frequently make fitness-reducing decisions. This article adds the argument that interpreting culturally patterned behaviors as amplified inclusive fitness strategies requires specification of the individual-level behavior trait…
Darwin Sex Status
Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Darwin, Sex, and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
The Adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to the emergence of a fundamentally new view of the hum…
Darwin, Sex and Status: Biological Approaches to Mind and Culture
Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799
Sociology (20 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 works)