CBoehm

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Christopher Boehm received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard in 1972, and was later trained in ethological field techniques (1983) at the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania. He has done field work with Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and wild chimpanzees, focusing on questions of politics, morality and evolution. He is the author of three books, and has had major research grants from the H. F. Guggenheim and John Templeton Foundations. He also has won the Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology, and has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His current research centers on the evolution of the human conscience, and a book will be published by Basic Books on this subject in 2011. The focus will be on social selection as an agency for the evolutionary development of altruistic behavior in humans. As Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California, he is creating a multi-media interactive database focusing on the social and moral behavior of world hunter gatherers, and developing a methodology for projecting present behaviors of mobile egalitarian foragers into the past.

 

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