Robert Kurzban is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara in 1998 and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona’s Economic Science Laboratory with Vernon Smith. He investigates a wide array of topics, including morality, cooperation, friendship, mate choice, supernatural beliefs, modularity, and self-control. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Evolution and Human Behavior the Director of Undergraduate Studies in his department and the President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.