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Laura Betzig studies despotism and democracy in history. She's looked at the cross cultural record; done fieldwork in Micronesia on Ifaluk and Yap; and read ancient, medieval and modern history. She's published close to a hundred scientific and scholarly articles, and 3 books: Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of History; Human Reproductive Behavior: A Darwinian Perspective; and Human Nature: A Critical Reader. She's spent the last couple of decades working on a history of the West. Betzig has a B.A. from the University of Michigan
in psychology, Laura's daughter Alexa, MIT '07, Harvard '11,
develops targeted cancer therapies for a biotech
in Cambridge; her son Max, Carnegie Mellon '11,
led his soccer team to consecutive NCAA tournament
berths, and now works in a Chicago bank. She and
her husband, MD and anthropologist Paul Turke,
live together near Ann Arbor, on Strawberry Lake. Contact: |
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and a Ph.D. in
anthropology from Northwestern University. She's
held research and teaching positions at
Northwestern, the University of California and the
University of Michigan in anthropology, psychology
and zoology; and has lectured in departments of
anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy,
psychology and medieval history. She's done TV in
the US and Canada, the Netherlands and the UK; and
her work has been written up in newspapers and
magazines like Time, The Economist,
The Washington Post, New Scientist,
Smithsonian, Slate, Politico,
The Atlantic, Discover, Worth
and US News & World Report. She's
contributed to the Annual Question at