Dr. Martin Daly (Ph.D., Toronto)
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23018
I am interested in the relevance of
evolutionary and ecological theories to psychology. My more specific
interests include comparative studies of social
diversity among related animal species, sex differences, parent-
offspring relations, lethal violence, and the evolutionary consequences
of uncertain paternity in animals with internal fertilization.
I conduct research on both human and
nonhuman behaviour, usually in collaboration with Margo Wilson. We do
field and laboratory research on the behavioural ecology of desert
rodents, and we do epidemiological studies of homicide, which we treat
as a window on human passions and antagonisms and hence as a sort of
assay of interpersonal conflict.
Dr. Daly is
past-President of the Human Behavior & Evolution
Society (1991-1993). He has been elected to the executive committees of
the Animal Behavior Society and the International Society for
Behavioral Ecology, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the
J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, and the Rockefeller Foundation.