Robin Fox is an Anglo-American anthropologist who has written on the topics of marriage, human and primate

Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...

 kinship

Kinship

Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. And descent groups, lineages, etc. are treated in their own subsections....

 systems, and evolutionary anthropology

Evolutionary anthropology

Evolutionary anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of evolution of human physiology and human behaviour and the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates. Evolutionary anthropology is based in natural science and social science...

 and sociology

Sociocultural evolution

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. He was born in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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. He founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 in 1967 and remained a professor there for the rest of his career. Fox published a work, The Imperial Animal, with Lionel Tiger

Lionel Tiger

Lionel Tiger is a Canadian-born, American-based anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a graduate of McGill University, and the London School of Economics at the University of...

 in 1972, that advocated a 'social carnivore theory' of human evolution. His daughter Kate Fox

Kate Fox

Kate Fox is a social anthropologist. She is the director of the Social Issues Research Centre an independent, not-for-profit organisation . She has written several books.- Background:...

has also written an anthropologically-themed book titled Watching the English.

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