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Barbara Smuts and Robert Smuts

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Robert Smuts (1920–2003) and Barbara Smuts (1950–) are father and daughter scholars recognized for their interdisciplinary work in evolutionary psychology. Barbara Smuts has conducted research on social relationships and social cognition in primates and other species. Robert Smuts conducted historical research on women’s labor participation and later contributed to theoretical discussions on sex roles within evolutionary psychology. The two scholars worked together at the University of Michigan and collaborated to produce a seminal paper on the evolution of sexual coercion.

Barbara Smuts

Barbara Boardman Smuts is a biologist and anthropologist whose research has addressed the evolutionary significance and proximate maintenance of social relationships in primates, canines, and cetaceans. She received her B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1972 and her PhD in neuro- and biobehavioral sciences in 1982 from the Stanford University Medical School and continued at...

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  • Baker, K. C., & Smuts, B. B. (1994). Social relationships of female chimpanzees: Diversity between captive social groups. In R. W. Wrangham, W. C. McGrew, F. B. M. de Waal, & P. G. Heltne (Eds.), Chimpanzee cultures (pp. 227–242). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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  • Bauer, E. B., & Smuts, B. B. (2007). Cooperation and competition during dyadic play in domestic dogs, Canis familiaris. Animal Behaviour, 73(3), 489–499.

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  • Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1–14.

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  • Smuts, R. W. (1957). The Negro community and the development of Negro potential. The Journal of Negro Education, 26(4), 456–465.

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  • Smuts, R. W. (1989). Behavior depends on context. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(01), 33–34.

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  • Smuts, R. W. (1991b). The present also explains the past: A response to Tooby and Cosmides. Ethology & Sociobiology, 12(2), 77–82.

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  • Smuts, B. B., & Gubernick, D. J. (1992). Male-infant relationships in nonhuman primates: Paternal investment or mating effort? In B. S. Hewlett (Ed.), Father-child relationships: Cultural and biosocial contexts (pp. 1–30). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

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  • Smuts, B. B., & Smuts, R. W. (1993). Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in nonhuman primates and other mammals: Evidence and theoretical implications. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 22, 1–63.

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  • Smuts, B. B., Cheney, D. L., Seyfarth, R. M., Wrangham, R. W., & Struhsaker, T. T. (1987). Primate Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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  • Trisko, R. K., Sandel, A. A., & Smuts, B. (2016). Affiliation, dominance and friendship among companion dogs. Behaviour, 153, 693–725.

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  • Ward, C., Bauer, E. B., & Smuts, B. B. (2008). Partner preferences and asymmetries in social play among domestic dog, Canis lupus familiaris, littermates. Animal Behaviour, 76(4), 1187–1199.

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  • Wrangham, R. W., & Smuts, B. (1980). Sex differences in the behavioral ecology of chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, 28, 13–31.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Melissa Emery Thompson

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Thompson, M.E. (2018). Barbara Smuts and Robert Smuts. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2076-1

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