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Lionel Tiger

Anthropology

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#309

Historical Rank

#117

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According to Wikipedia, Lionel Tiger is a Canadian-American anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Early life and education Born in 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, he is a graduate of McGill University, and the London School of Economics at the University of London, England. He is also a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense on the future of biotechnology. Lionel Tiger lives in New York City, and regularly contributes to mainstream media such as Psychology Today and The New York Times.

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Lionel Tiger's Published Works

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Published Works

Optimism: The Biology of Hope (1979) (330)
Primate Behavior: Field of Studies Monkeys and Apes (1965) (288)
The Imperial Animal (1971) (275)
Men In Groups (1969) (269)
Women in the kibbutz (1977) (147)
The Pursuit Of Pleasure (1992) (131)
The decline of males (1999) (46)
The Manufacture Of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System (1987) (44)
The Zoological Perspective in Social Science (1966) (40)
Sociobiology and politics. (1980) (27)
Biology, Rhetoric, Reform: The Allure of Low-Born High Ideals (1973) (27)
The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women (1999) (25)
Dominance in Human Societies (1970) (15)
Effects of medroxyprogesterone acetate on socio-sexual behavior of stumptail macaques (1982) (12)
Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations (2005) (11)
Man & beast revisited (1991) (8)
God's Brain (2010) (6)
Bureaucracy and Charisma in Ghana (1966) (6)
The cerebral bridge from family to foe (1990) (5)
Some Essential Features of Nkrumahism (1965) (3)
My Life in the Human Nature Wars (2015) (3)
Alcohol and Pleasure (2007) (3)
IDEOLOGY AS BRAIN DISEASE (1985) (2)
SURVIVAL OF THE FAITHFUL (1985) (2)
Nkrumah's Ghana and the Theory of Charisma (1964) (2)
Power is a liquid, not a solid (2000) (2)
Ions of Emotion and Political Behavior: Notes on a Prototheory (1976) (2)
Diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis. (1986) (2)
Book Review: Africa: Neo-Colonialism (1967) (1)
Meat and Genes: A response to Thomason, Tiger, Winston (AT 24[4]) (2008) (1)
Comment on "Sex and Social Participation" (1972) (1)
Feral Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature. Douglas Keith Candland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 411 pp. US$30.00 cloth. ISBN 0-19-507468-8. Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA. (1996) (1)
Diplomats, Monkeys, and the New Biology (1967) (1)
Debate: Will Women's Lib Really Help Women?. (1971) (1)
Torturers, horror films, and the aesthetic legacy of predation (2006) (1)
Physical Anthropology: Biology and the Human Sciences: The Herbert Spencer Lectures 1970. J. W. S. PRINGLE (1974) (1)
All in a day's work (2009) (1)
Are humans optimistic?: Response to P. H. Rubin (1981) (1)
Elders and Chiefs (2017) (0)
Sex differences in mathematics: Why the fuss? (1988) (0)
Close But Not Close Enough (2008) (0)
Ghana: A Charismatic Nation (1963) (0)
Book Reviews : Major-General H. T. Alexander, African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkru mah's Chief of Staff, Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1966, pp. 149. $ 4.95 (1966) (0)
Ghana (1963) (0)
Sacred Music in the Garden of Madison (1976) (0)
Books in review (1995) (0)
Biology and social life (2002) (0)
Book Review:The King's Men: Leadership and Status in Buganda on the Eve of Independence. L. A. Fallers (1965) (0)
The Most Reckless Theorists (1995) (0)
Areal Delimitations of Western Civilization (2017) (0)
Bond Issue Two: Man to Man (2017) (0)
Stability and variation in human evolution (1983) (0)
Kibbutz and Parental Investment (Women in the Kibbutz Reconsidered) (2020) (0)
Europe 1–10 (2017) (0)
Theatre and the human animal (1983) (0)
The City of Man (2017) (0)
Biology and the Human Condition: Interview With Lionel Tiger (1975) (0)
Self-Imposed Unknowables (1997) (0)
Minor Civilizations in Native North America (2017) (0)
Conclusion Going Native (2017) (0)
DOMINANCE IN HUMAN SOCIETIES 4011 (2016) (0)
The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (2017) (0)
Patterns of Male Association (1967) (0)
The Benign Oppression (2017) (0)
Ghanaian Politics and Social Change (1966) (0)
On Human Nature (1992) (0)
Special Expressions of Man: Blushing (2017) (0)
Men in Groups@@@Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour (1970) (0)
A Defense of CTV (1978) (0)
Give and Take (2017) (0)
Let’s Hear it for Retrodiction! (2010) (0)
This Guy, Fox (2017) (0)
Checklist of Civilizations and Culture (2011) (0)
Biology as Precedent (2002) (0)
IS RED MEAT ESSENTIAL FOR HUMANKIND (2008) (0)
A second look at the notion of biogrammar (1994) (0)
Melancholy montreal memoir (2007) (0)
Letters to the editor (1952) (0)
Biology, Rhetoric, Reform: The Allure of Low-Born High Ideals* (1973) (0)
Bureaucracy and Charisma in Ghana 1 (1966) (0)
Good grooming. (1968) (0)
Demand-Driven Leadership (1999) (0)
Transforming men: Changing pattern of dependency and dominance in gender relations (1997) (0)
Is red meat essential for humankind? Responses to Adrian Peace in this issue (2008) (0)
Bond Issue One: Women and Children First (2017) (0)
Charles Darwin: An Anthology (2017) (0)
Female Hierarchies in a Kibbutz Community (2017) (0)
General and Theoretical: Sex, Man and Society. ASHLEY MONTAGU (1972) (0)
Social Structure and Testosterone.Theodore D. Kemper (1993) (0)
The Evolution of Political Society: An Essay in Political Anthropology. Morton H. Fried (1969) (0)
Full Circle (2011) (0)
Women After All (2015) (0)
From Theory to Practice: Caveat Emptor (2003) (0)
The Irish Question (2017) (0)

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