My early field research dealt with the social behavior and ecology of marmots, and more recently, I have been concerned with evaluating and interpretting patterns of individual differences in their behavior. I have also conducted studies of a variety of species, including behavior genetics in fish, courtship of parasitic wasps, habitat utilization in sympatric mountain mammals, rape in ducks, adultery in bluebirds, mate-guarding and gallivanting as male strategies, and parent-offspring interactions in birds.

Books:

David P. Barash. The Survival Game: how game theory explains the biology of cooperation and competition (Henry Holt/Times Books, 2003)

David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton. The Myth of Monogamy: fidelity and infidelity in animals and people (W. H. Freeman, 2001; paperback edition, Henry Holt, 2002)

David P. Barash. Revolutionary Biology: the new, gene-centered view of life. (Transaction, 2001)

David P. Barash and Ilona Anne Barash. The Mammal in the Mirror: understanding our place in the animal world. (W. H. Freeman, 2000; paperback edition, 2001)

David P. Barash. Marmots: social behavior and ecology (Stanford University Press, 1989)

David P. Barash. Sociobiology and Behavior (Elsevier, 1977; 2nd, revised edition (Elsevier, 1982)