John Tooby

John Tooby es un antropólogo estadounidense que, junto a su esposa, la psicóloga Leda Cosmides, ayudó a impulsar el campo de la psicología evolucionista.^[1]^[2] Tooby recibió su Ph.D. en antropología biológica de la Universidad de Harvard en 1989, siendo hoy en día catedrático de antropología en la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara.

John Tooby
Información personal
Nacimiento	26 de julio de 1952 (69 años) Saint Paul (Estados Unidos)
Nacionalidad	Estadounidense
Educación
Educado en	Universidad de Harvard
Información profesional
Ocupación	Antropólogo y psicólogo
Empleador	Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara
Distinciones	Beca Guggenheim Jean Nicod Prize (2020)
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En 1992, junto con Leda Cosmides y Jerome Barkow, Tooby redactó "La mente adaptada: psicología evolucionista y la génesis de la cultura" (en inglés, The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture). Tooby y Cosmides también cofundaron y colideran el Centro de Psicología Evolucionista.

Tooby actualmente trabaja en un libro sobre la evolución de la reproducción sexual y los sistemas genéticos.^[3]

Publicaciones

Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J., (Eds.) (1992). The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (in press). Evolutionary psychology: Foundational papers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (in press). Universal Minds: Explaining the new science of evolutionary psychology(Darwinism Today Series). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1981). Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 89, 83-129.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1987). From evolution to behavior: Evolutionary psychology as the missing link. In J. Dupre (Ed.), The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments. Ethology and Sociobiology, 11, 375-424.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1992) Cognitive adaptations for social exchange. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1994). Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: Toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science. Cognition, 50(1-3), 41-77.
Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (2003). Evolutionary psychology: Theoretical Foundations. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan.
Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2005). Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations. In D. M. Buss (Ed.), Evolutionary Psychology Handbook. New York: Wiley.
Cosmides, Leda; Tooby, John (2008). «Evolution Psychology». En Ronald Hamowy Ronald Hamowy, ed. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 158-61. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.

David Buss, in the textbook Evolutionary Psychology (Allyn & Bacon, 1999), pp. xxi-xxii: "In the writing of this book I owe the greatest intellectual debt to Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Don Symons, Martin Daly, and Margo Wilson, pioneers and founders of the emerging field of evolutionary psychology."
See also Geoffrey Miller, "How to Keep Our Meta-Theories Adaptive: Beyond Cosmides, Tooby, and Lakatos" Psychological Inquiry 11:1 (2000), p. 42: "For a young science barely a decade old, evolutionary psychology has achieved a remarkably strong metatheoretical consensus. [...] [E]volutionary psychology's metatheory was also shaped very strongly by a series of ambitious, persuasive, and visionary articles by Cosmides and Tooby in the late 1980s and early 1990s that showed how adaptationism could be applied to the human mind. The Cosmides-Tooby vision of evolutionary psychology profoundly influenced the thinking of other leading researchers, such as Buss, Gigerenzer, Pinker, and Thornhill. It was also adopted as the conceptual framework in the most influential popular accounts of evolutionary psychology."
Last line of introductory paragraph on John Tooby's personal web page http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/tooby/