Dr Gordon Howell Orians (born July 10, 1932) is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the 1999 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research. He received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1998.

He has been a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1983 and a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America since 2012.

References

Research centers/
organizations

• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Human Behavior and Evolution Society
• Max Planck Ins*ute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Max Planck Ins*ute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• New England Complex Systems Ins*ute

Publications

• The Adapted Mind
• Evolution and Human Behavior
• The Evolution of Human Sexuality
• Evolutionary Psychology

Related subjects

• Behavioral epigenetics
• Behavioural genetics
• Behavioral/Cognitive/Evolutionary neuroscience
• Biocultural anthropology
• Cognitive science
• Determinism/Indeterminism
  • Biological determinism
  • Connectionism
  • Nature versus nurture
  • Psychological nativism
  • Social constructionism
  • Social determinism
  • Standard social science model
• Evolutionary medicine
  • Criticism of Facebook
  • Digital media use and mental health
  • Screen time
  • Social aspects of television
• Memetics
• Modularity of mind
  • Domain generality
  • Domain specificity
  • Dual process theory
• Primatology
• Sociobiology
• Unit of selection
  • Coevolution
  • Cultural group selection
  • Dual inheritance theory
  • Gene-centered view of evolution
  • Group selection
  • Recent human evolution

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