Meet the Authors
Robert Boyd has written widely on evolutionary theory, focusing especially on the evolution of cooperation and the role of culture in human evolution. His Culture and the Evolutionary Process received the J. I. Staley Prize. He is also the author of The Origin and Evolution of Cultures and co-author of Not by Genes Alone, and has published numerous articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. He is currently co-director of the MacArthur Preferences Network and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Joan B. Silk has conducted extensive research on the social lives of monkeys and apes, including extended fieldwork on chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania and baboons in Kenya and Botswana. She is also interested in the application of evolutionary thinking to human behavior, especially adoption and friendship. She has published numerous papers in scientific journals and edited volumes and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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