Robert Boyd (anthropologist)

Robert T. Boyd
Born (1948-02-11) February 11, 1948 (age 76)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
University of California, San Diego
SpouseJoan B. Silk
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
Ecology

Robert Turner Boyd (born February 11, 1948) is an American anthropologist. He is professor of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests include evolutionary psychology and in particular the evolutionary roots of culture. Together with his primatologist wife, Joan B. Silk (who is also a professor in SHESC at ASU), he wrote the textbook How Humans Evolved.