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Jerome (Jerry) Barkow is a biosocial anthropologist whose work has emphasized how our evolved psychology provides the infrastructure of culture and whose work has been a prescient call (Barkow 1973, 1994) for an evolutionary psychological anthropology. His often pioneering work embraces how our pan-primate tendency to form hierarchies helps to generate – and always underlies – human social structures (Barkow 1975a, b, 1980a, 2014b). He co-edited the foundational text and rallying cry for evolutionary psychology, The Adapted Mind (Barkow et al. 1992), drawing together his earlier recognition for evolutionary approaches to ground our study of human behavior. Barkow’s work runs a broad gamut, including work that was a forerunner in the evolutionary study of gossip (Barkow 1992), happiness (Barkow 1997), and, more recently, the likely psychology of extraterrestrials (Barkow 2000, 2014a, forthcoming). He has also been vocal that explanations at different levels of organization...
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Barkow, J. H. (1973). Darwinian psychological anthropology: A biosocial approach. Current Anthropology, 14, 373–388.
Barkow, J. H. (1975a). Prestige and culture: A biosocial approach. Current Anthropology, 16(4), 553–572. https://doi.org/10.1086/201619.
Barkow, J. H. (1975b). Strategies for self-esteem and prestige in Maradi, Niger Republic. In T. R. Williams (Ed.), Psychological anthropology (pp. 373–388). The Hague/Paris: Mouton.
Barkow, J. H. (1976a). Attention structure and internal representations. In M. R. A. Chance & R. R. Larsen (Eds.), The social structure of attention (pp. 203–219). London: Wiley.
Barkow, J. H. (1976b). Attention structure and the evolution of human psychological characteristics. In M. R. A. Chance & R. R. Larsen (Eds.), The social structure of attention (pp. 203–220). London: Wiley.
Barkow, J. H. (1977). Conformity to ethos and reproductive success in two Hausa communities: An empirical evaluation. Ethos, 5(4), 409–425. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1977.5.4.02a00030.
Barkow, J. H. (1978a). Culture and sociobiology. American Anthropologist, 80, 5–20.
Barkow, J. H. (1978b). Social norms, the self, and sociobiology: Building on the ideas of A.I. Hallowell. Current Anthropology, 19, 99–118.
Barkow, J. H. (1980a). Prestige and self-esteem: A biosocial interpretation. In D. R. Omark, F. F. Strayer, & D. G. Freedman (Eds.), Dominance relations: An ethological view of human conflict and social interaction (pp. 319–332). New York: Garland.
Barkow, J. H. (1980b). Sociobiology: Is this the new theory of human nature? In A. Montagu (Ed.), Sociobiology examined (pp. 171–192). New York/London: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H. (1982). Return to nepotism: The collapse of a Nigerian gerontocracy. International Journal of Political Science Review, 3, 33–49.
Barkow, J. H. (1984). The distance between genes and culture. Journal of Anthropological Research, 37, 367–379.
Barkow, J. H. (1989a). Darwin, sex, and status: Biological approaches to mind and culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Barkow, J. H. (1989b). The elastic between genes and culture. Ethology and Sociobiology, 10(1–3), 111–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(89)90015-0.
Barkow, J. H., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (Eds.). (1992). The adapted mind. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H. (1992). Beneath new culture is old psychology. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 626–637). New York: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H. (1994). Evolutionary psychological anthropology. In P. K. Bock (Ed.), Handbook of psychological anthropology (pp. 121–138). Westport: Greenwood.
Barkow, J. H. (1997). Happiness in evolutionary perspective. In N. L. Segal, G. E. Weisfeld, & C. C. Weisfeld (Eds.), Uniting psychology and biology. integrative perspectives on human development (pp. 397–418). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Barkow, J. H. (2000). Do extraterrestrials have sex (and intelligence)? In D. LeCroy & P. Moller (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on human reproductive behavior (Vol. 907, pp. 164–181). New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Barkow, J. H. (2001). Universalien und Evolutionäre Psychologie. In P. M. Hejl (Ed.), Universalien und Konstruktivismus (pp. 126–138). Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag.
Barkow, J. H. (2003). Biology is destiny only if we ignore it. World Futures, 59, 173–188.
Barkow, J. H. (2006a). Vertical/compatible integration versus analogizing with biology. [Editorial Material]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(4), 348–349.
Barkow, J. H. (2006b). Sometimes the bus does wait. In J. H. Barkow (Ed.), Missing the revolution: Darwinism for social scientists (pp. 3–59). New York: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H. (Ed.). (2006c). Missing the revolution: Darwinism for social scientists. New York: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H. (2014a). Eliciting altruism while avoiding xenophobia: A thought experiment. In D. A. Vakoch (Ed.), Extraterrestrial altruism: Evolution and ethics in the cosmos (pp. 17–48). New York: Springer.
Barkow, J. H. (2014b). Prestige and the ongoing process of culture revision. In The psychology of social status (pp. 29–46). New York: Springer Science+Business Media.
Barkow, J. H. (forthcoming). The evolutionary psychology of extraterrestrials. In D. A. Vakoch (Ed.), Cognition and communication in extraterrestrial intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press.
Barkow, J. H., Beals, K. L., Daly, M., Davis, W., Feldman, K. D., Hall, R. H., et al. (1978). Social norms, the self, and sociobiology: Building on the ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and comments and reply]. Current Anthropology, 19(1), 99–118. https://doi.org/10.2307/2741154.
Barkow, J. H., O’Gorman, R., & Rendell, L. (2012). Are the new mass media subverting cultural transmission? Review of General Psychology, 16(2), 121–133. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027907.
Barkow, J. H., O’Gorman, R., & Rendell, L. (2013). Cultural transmission. In R. J. McGee & R. L. Warms (Eds.), Theory in social and cultural anthropology: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. 154–158). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Barkow, J. H., Taslim, N. A., Hadju, V., Ishak, E., Attamimi, F., Silwana, S., et al. (2001). Social competition, social intelligence, and why the Bugis know more about cooking than about nutrition. In W. G. Runciman (Ed.), Origins of social institutions (Vol. 110, pp. 119–147). London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy.
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O’Gorman, R. (2018). Jerome H. Barkow. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_196-1
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