Stories by David Barash

David P. Barash received his Ph.D. in zoology (animal behavior and evolutionary biology) in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin, and authored his first technical article about Buddhism and biology in 1973. He was involved in the early development of sociobiology as a scientific discipline, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and professor of psychology at the University of Washington. Barash writes regularly for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has frequently been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Aeon Magazine, among others. He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed technical articles and has authored, co-authored or edited 36 books, most recently Buddhist Biology: ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western science, just published by Oxford University Press.