Name Leda Cosmides | Books The Adapted Mind | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Similar John Tooby , David Buss , Robert Trivers |
Our mind is not a blank slate evolutionary psychologists leda cosmides john tooby
Leda Cosmides (born May 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology.
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- Our mind is not a blank slate evolutionary psychologists leda cosmides john tooby
- Stone age minds a conversation with evolutionary psychologists leda cosmides and john tooby
- Selected publications
- References

Cosmides originally studied biology at Radcliffe College/Harvard University, receiving her BA in 1979. While an undergraduate, she was influenced by the renowned evolutionary biologist Robert L. Trivers, who was her advisor. In 1985, Cosmides received a PhD in cognitive psychology from Harvard. After completing postdoctoral work under Roger Shepard at Stanford University, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991, becoming a full professor in 2000.

In 1992, together with Tooby and Jerome Barkow, Cosmides edited The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. She and Tooby also co-founded and co-direct the Center for Evolutionary Psychology.

Cosmides was awarded the 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Behavioral Science Research, the 1993 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2005 National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award.

Stone age minds a conversation with evolutionary psychologists leda cosmides and john tooby
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