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. 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). In 1992, together with
Leda Cosmides and
John Tooby, Barkow edited the influential book
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. In 2006, he edited
Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists. Barkow died at the age of 80 on April 30, 2024 from
esophageal cancer. == See also ==