David P. Barash

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David P. Barash born in 1946, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, and is notable for several books on human aggression, peace studies, and sexual behavior of animals and people. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He taught at the State University of New York at Oneonta, and then accepted a permanent position at the University of Washington.

Barash has been named one of the country's "101 Most Dangerous Professors," by right-wing writer David Horowitz, because of his advocacy of peace and other progressive causes, as well as his avowed atheism and persistent exploration of evolutionary biology and its application to human behavior.

His most recent book is Natural Selections: selfish altruists, honest liars and other realities of evolution, based on articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and published in 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press. Immediately before that was Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature, a popular but serious presentation of Darwinian literary criticism, jointly written with his daughter, Nanelle Rose Barash. He has also written over 230 scholarly articles and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with many other honors.

Forthcoming, in 2008, is a 2nd edition of Peace and Conflict Studies a textbook co-authored with Charles P. Webel (Sage Publications), and How Women Got Their Breasts and Other Just-So Stories, co-authored with Judith Eve Lipton and scheduled for publication by Columbia University Press.

Contents 1 Non-technical books 2 Academic books 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Non-technical books

• David P. Barash. Natural Selections: Natural Selections: selfish altruists, honest liars and other realities of evolution Bellevue Literary Press, 2007
• David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash. Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature Delacorte, 2005
• David P. Barash. The Survival Game: how game theory explains cooperation and competition Henry Holt/Times Books, 2003
• David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. Making Sense of Sex: how genes gender influence our relationships. Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1997; paperback edition as Gender Gap: the biology of male-female differences, Transaction Publishers, 2001
• Barash, D. & Lipton, J. (2001). The Myth of Monogamy – Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-7136-9
  • Review by T. R Birkhead ^[1]
• David P. Barash. Revolutionary Biology: the new, gene-centered view of life. Transaction Publishers, 2001
• David P. Barash and Ilona Anne Barash. The Mammal in the Mirror: understanding our place in the animal world (W. H. Freeman, 2000;
• David P. Barash. Beloved Enemies: our need for opponents. Prometheus Books, 1994
• David P. Barash. The L Word: an unapologetic, thoroughly biased, long-overdue explication and celebration of liberalism William Morrow, 1992
• David P. Barash. The Great Outdoors Lyle Stuart, 1989; in paper as Give Peas a Chance, Lyle Stuart, 1991
• David P. Barash. The Hare and the Tortoise: the conflict between culture and biology in human affairs Viking, 1986; Penguin, 1987
  • translated into six languages
• David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton. The Caveman and the Bomb: human nature, evolution, and nuclear war McGraw-Hill, 1985; Olive Branch Award nominee)
• David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton. Stop Nuclear War! A handbook Grove Press, 1982;
  • (National Book Award nominee)
• David P. Barash. Aging: an exploration/ Univ. of Washington Press, 1981;
  • translated into two languages
• David P. Barash. The Whisperings Within: evolution and the origin of human nature Harper & Row, 1979; Penguin, 1980;
  • translated into seven languages

[edit] Academic books

• David P. Barash and Charles Webel. Peace and Conflict Studies. (Sage Publications, 2002)
• Arthur Gandolfi, Anna S. Gandolfi, and David P. Barash. Economics as an Evolutionary Science: from utility to fitness. Transaction Publishers, 2002
• David P. Barash. Understanding Violence Allyn & Bacon, 2001
• David P. Barash. Approaches to Peace Oxford University Press, 2000
• David P. Barash. Ideas of Human Nature: from the Bhagavad Gita to sociobiology Prentice Hall,1998
• David P. Barash. Introduction to Peace Studies Wadsworth, 1991
• David P. Barash. Marmots: social behavior and ecology Stanford University Press, 1989
• David P. Barash. The Arms Race and Nuclear War Wadsworth, 1986
• David P. Barash. Sociobiology and Behavior Elsevier, 1977; 2nd, revised edition, 1982

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official home page at the University of Washington.