Evolutionary psychologists

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, W. D. Hamilton, Kevin B. MacDonald, Nicholas Humphrey, Noah Chazzman, Paul Ekman, Howard Bloom, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, David C. Geary, Robert Trivers, Douglas T. Kenrick, Satoshi Kanazawa, Mark Schaller, Geoffrey Miller, Glenn Wilson, Dylan Evans, Paul Bloom, Robin Dunbar, David Matsumoto, Victor Johnston, Nancy Segal, David Buss, Leda Cosmides, Jesse Bering, John Tooby, Benedict Jones, Gad Saad, Robert Burriss, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Edward S. Reed, J. Anderson Thomson, David P. Schmitt, Donald Symons, David F. Bjorklund, David Perrett, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, Jerome H. Barkow, List of evolutionary psychologists, Lance Workman, Daniel Fessler. Excerpt: Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of Judaism as being a "group evolutionary strategy." MacDonald's most controversial claim is that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have eugenically evolved to enhance the ability of Jews to conspire to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the white majorities in Europe and America whom he insists Jews seek to disposess. His colleagues at the university's psychology department, as well as the Cal State Long Beach academic senate, have formally disassociated themselves from his work. The academic senate described his views as antisemitic and white ethnocentric. MacDonald was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and raised in a traditional Roman Catholic family. His father was a policeman and his mother was a secretary. He went to parochial schools and played basketball in high school. He entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became an activist in the anti-war movement from about 1965 to 1975. During this period, he perceived the East Coast Jewish origins of the majority of the movement there (Culture of Critique, p. 104), which motivated his interest in Jewish intellectual movements. MacDonald became a philosophy major and abandoned leftist radicalism. He embarked on a career as a Jazz pianist, but by the late 1970s had abandoned it in favour of academia. While in graduate school, he became attracted to E. O. Wilson's theory of sociobiology. MacDonald is the author of seven books on evolutionary psychology and child development and is the author or editor of over thirty academic articles in refereed journals. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966, and M.S. in biology from the University of Connecticut in 1976. He earned a P

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