abstract:Margo Wilson (1 October 1942 – 24 September 2009) was Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Along with her husband and frequent research partner Martin Daly, she wrote many influential papers and books in the field of evolutionary psychology.
The studyof the evolutionaryroots of crime began with the work of Martin Daly andMargoWilson, a married couple whowork at McMasterUniversity in Canada.
One much discussed study, from the early nineteen-eighties, by the Canadian psychologists Martin Daly and MargoWilson, suggests that parents are more likely to abuse stepchildren than to abuse their own offspring.
MargoWilson and Martin Daly, famous for a study several years ago which showed that children are far more likely to be killed by step-parents than biological parents, tend to look at things from a Darwinian point of view.