Christopher Boehm | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Christopher Boehm (1931-2021) was a professor of biological sciences and anthropology at University of Southern California, and was director of the Goodall Research Center. He was a recipient of fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the School of Advanced Research, and was been awarded the Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology. Boehm did fieldwork with Navajo Indians, tribal Serbs in Montenegro, and wild chimpanzees working at Gombe National Park. His interests included political and moral evolution, and hunter-gatherer sociopolitics. He developed a large-scale database on these foragers.

URLs:

https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003114

http://www.christopher-boehm.com/about/

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethics, Ethology, Evolution, Law, Paleoanthropology

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 3 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Session	Symposium
2014-05-16	Warfare and Feuding in Pleistocene Societies	Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution
2014-05-16	Wrap Up, Question and Answer, and Closing Remarks	Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution
2010-12-10	Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider	The Evolution of Human Altruism