Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers

by Robert Trivers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195130626
• ISBN13: 9780195130621
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"