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Boyd, Robert, 1948-

LC control no.n 84123992
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Personal name headingBoyd, Robert, 1948-
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Variant(s)Boyd, Robert (Professor of cultural evolution)
Boyd, Robert Turner
Other standard no.0000000117505302
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Q1515949
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedArizona
Birth date1948-02-11
Place of birthSan Francisco (Calif.)
Field of activityAnthropology
Evolutionary psychology
Physics
Ecology
AffiliationUniversity of California, San Diego
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Arizona State University. School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Profession or occupationAnthropologists
College teachers
University and college faculty members
Found inHis Culture and the evolutionary process, 1985: CIP t.p. (Robert Boyd) pub. info. sheet (Ph. D., 1975, ecology, Univ. of Calif., Davis; asst. prof., Sch. of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke Univ.)
How humans evolved, 1997: CIP t.p. (Robert Boyd, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles) galley (prof. of anthropology; "has written extensively on evolutionary theory and on the mathematical models of cultural evolution")
Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, WWW pages, June 19. 2006: faculty (Robert Boyd; professor; Ph.D., UC Davis, 1975; b. Feb. 11, 1948, Los Angeles)
Wikipedia, viewed September 15, 2016 (Robert Boyd; born February 11, 1948 in San Francisco; American anthropologist; research interests include evolutionary psychology and in particular the evolutionary roots of culture; studied physics at the University of California, San Diego; completed Ph.D. in 1975 in ecology at the University of California, Davis; currently a Professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University)
A different kind of animal, 2018: ECIP t.p. (Robert Boyd) data view ("Origins professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. His research focuses on incorporating cultural transmission into the Darwinian theory of evolution, and on the evolution of social behavior, especially reciprocity and collective action. Some of this work is described in Culture and the Evolutionary Process, Not by Genes Alone and the Origin and Evolution of Cultures, all co-authored with Peter Richerson. He has also written an overview of human evolution, How Humans Evolved, with collaboration with Joan Silk")
Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change website, Apr. 24, 2017 (Robert Boyd, Origins Professor and Research Affiliate, Institute of Human Origins; co-author of Culture and the evolutionary process, and Not by genes alone: how culture transformed human evolution)
Wikidata, viewed April 29, 2020 (Robert Boyd; also known as Robert Turner Boyd)
Associated languageeng
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