I'm an anthropologist, poet and essayist, and University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University, where I founded the Department of Anthropology in 1967.
I guess I am best known professionally for my work on human and primate kinship systems, and my early (1967) book Kinship and Marriage, which, in all its editions and translations is the most widely used anthropology text in the world. 		Since then I have worked with Lionel Tiger and others on the significance of evolution for an understanding of human behavior and society, through teaching, writing and research. Kind critics call me one of the pioneers of this approach, and through books and (many) articles I have explored the implications for the human future of our knowledge of the evolutionary past, using not only science, but verse, drama, dialogue, satire, and more…
  My current project is a lengthy memoir of the middle years of the twentieth century, and the people involved in the nature/nurture controversy when it was at its fiercest. It is called Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life (See Latest Book)  


“Robin Fox has had a fascinating, adventurous and funny life. It would make a great movie.”
- Peter Cattaneo, director of Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, THE FULL MONTY.

  
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