Donald Symons
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'''Donald Symons''' is an [[United States|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]].
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==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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