Steven Warren Gangestad is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, where he started working as Assistant Professor in 1987 after completing graduate and postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota. Steve is renowned as one of the world’s leading evolutionary psychologists, with many of his most highly cited papers solidifying the theoretical foundations on which the field is built. Such work includes an account of how cross-cultural variation in behavior can arise from developmental adaptations (Gangestad et al. 2006), a theoretical framework for understanding the variation in sexual strategies that many evolutionary psychologists study (Gangestad and Simpson 2000), and an outline of the evidentiary standards required to categorize features of an organism (including psychological ones) as adaptations, exaptations, or by-products (Andrews et al. 2002). Steve’s empirical program has been similarly foundational. It includes pioneering work on...
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Tybur, J.M. (2018). Steven Gangestad. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1980-1
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