May 16

May 16 Evolutionary Psychology

“Leda Cosmides is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the filed of evolutionary psychology.” 1.

I had the great privilege and pleasure of having her as one of my professors at UCSB, which had a tremendous influence on how I think about human nature. The most important lesson from her class was that if you want to make the world a better place for people you must correctly identify how and why humans act.