Donald Symons
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Donald Symons is an American anthropologist who is best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective. His most recent work, with Catherine Salmon, is "Warrior Lovers", an evolutionary analysis of slash fiction.
He is presently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[edit] Selected publications
Salmon, C. and Symons, D. (2003) Warrior Lovers. Yale University Press.
Symons, D. (1992) "On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior" in Barkow, J., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (eds) (1992) The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (New York: Oxford University Press)
Symons, D. (1990) "Adaptiveness and adaptation," in Ethology and Sociobiology, 11: 427—444.
Symons, D. (1989) "A critique of Darwinian anthropology," in Ethology and Sociobiology, 10: 131—144.
Symons, D. (1987) "If we're all Darwinians, what's the fuss about?" in Crawford, Smith & Krebs, Sociobiology and Psychology, #—#.
Symons, D. (1979) The Evolution of Human Sexuality (New York: Oxford University Press). ISBN 0195029070
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