Education
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1970.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1970.
He is Professor of Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University and a Distinguished International Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen"s University Belfast (Northern Ireland). Barkow has published on topics ranging from sex workers in Nigeria to the kinds of sentients Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 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.
Recently (2006), he edited Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists.