Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195130621)

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.

Author: Robert Trivers
ISBN-10: 0195130626
ISBN-13: 9780195130621
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2002
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.14w x 1.01d