David P. Barash  

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David P. Barash is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, and is notable for several books on human aggression, peace studies, and sexual behavior. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He taught at the State University of New York at Oneonta, and then accepted a permanent position at Wisconsin.

His most recent book, jointly written with his daughter, is Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature, is a popular but serious presentation of Darwinian literary criticism. His latest book, Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution, based on articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education will be published in October 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press. He has also written over 100 scholarly articles.

List of publications

• David P. Barash. Out of Eden: The Surprising Consequences of Polygamy, Oxford University Press, 2016
• David P. Barash. Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science, Oxford University Press, 2013
• David P. Barash. Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature, Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback, Oxford University Press, 2013
• David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. Payback: why we retaliate, redirect aggression and seek revenge, Oxford University Press, 2011
• David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. Strange Bedfellows: the surprising connection between sex, evolution and monogamy, Bellevue Literary Press, 2010
• David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories Columbia University Press, 2009
• David P. Barash. Natural Selections: Natural Selections: selfish altruists, honest liars and other realities of evolution Bellevue Literary Press, 2007
• David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash. Madame Bovary's Ovaries: a Darwinian look at literature Delacorte, 2005
• David P. Barash. The Survival Game: how game theory explains cooperation and competition Henry Holt/Times Books, 2003
• David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. Making Sense of Sex: how genes gender influence our relationships. Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1997; paperback edition as Gender Gap: the biology of male-female differences, Transaction Publishers, 2001
• Barash, D. & Lipton, J. (2001). The Myth of Monogamy – Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Template:ISBN
  • Review by T. R Birkhead <ref>Nature, Volume 413 Number 6851, Sept. 6, 2001, Template:Doi</ref>
• David P. Barash. Revolutionary Biology: the new, gene-centered view of life. Transaction Publishers, 2001
• David P. Barash and Ilona Anne Barash. The Mammal in the Mirror: understanding our place in the animal world (W. H. Freeman, 2000;
• David P. Barash. Beloved Enemies: our need for opponents. Prometheus Books, 1994
• David P. Barash. The L Word: an unapologetic, thoroughly biased, long-overdue explication and celebration of liberalism William Morrow, 1992
• David P. Barash. The Great Outdoors Lyle Stuart, 1989; in paper as Give Peas a Chance, Lyle Stuart, 1991
• David P. Barash. The Hare and the Tortoise: the conflict between culture and biology in human affairs Viking, 1986; Penguin, 1987
  • translated into six languages
• David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton. The Caveman and the Bomb: human nature, evolution, and nuclear war McGraw-Hill, 1985; Olive Branch Award nominee)
• David P. Barash & Judith Eve Lipton. Stop Nuclear War! A handbook Grove Press, 1982;
  • (National Book Award nominee)
• David P. Barash. Aging: an exploration/ Univ. of Washington Press, 1981;
  • translated into two languages
• David P. Barash. The Whisperings Within: evolution and the origin of human nature Harper & Row, 1979; Penguin, 1980;
  • translated into seven languages