Joan Silk
Joan B. Silk | |
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| Born | December 16, 1953 Riverside, CA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Department of Biology, University of Chicago (1981-1983)
Department of Anthropology, Emory University (1984-1986) Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (1986-2012) School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University (2012-current) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter S. Rodman |
Joan B. Silk (born December 16, 1953) is an American primatologist, Regents Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University . Her research interests include evolutionary anthropology, animal behavior, and primatology. Together with her anthropologist husband, Robert T. Boyd (also a professor in the same school), she wrote the textbook How Humans Evolved.