Dr. David C. Geary
Darwin and the Evolution of Psychology
Dr. David C. Geary is a Curators' Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California at Riverside, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Missouri, first at the Rolla campus and then in Columbia. Dr. Geary served as chair of his department from 2002 to 2005, and as the University of Missouri's Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences from 2000 to 2003. He has published more than 175 articles, commentaries, and chapters across a wide range of topics, including cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary psychology, education, and medicine. He has written three sole-authored books; Children's mathematical development, Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences, and The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general intelligence, as well as one co-authored book, Sex differences: Summarizing more than a century of scientific research. He served as a member of the President's National Mathematics Panel and Chaired the Learning Processes subcommittee, is a recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, and was appointed by President Bush to the National Board of Directors for the Institute for Education Sciences.