Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition) - Softcover

Trivers, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195130626 ISBN 13: 9780195130621

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Robert Trivers is a pioneering figure in the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts, and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genes, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in the light of subsequent work and further developments. The result is a unique portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with valuable insights for evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert L. Trivers is at Rutgers University.

Review:

One striking feature of Trivers' papers is that most contain very little mathematics, but there is plenty of verbal logic ... the book is suitable for reading in bed with falling asleep over pages of baffling formulae ... interesting stuff. * Animal Behaviour * This is a good book by a great evolutionary biologist, full of interesting personal narrative and readable and historically important papers on reciprocal altruism, sex ratios, parental investment and sexual selection, and much more. * Animal Behaviour *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195130626
• ISBN 13: 9780195130621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368