Natural Selection and Social Theory Selected Papers of Robert Trivers

by Trivers, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195130614
• ISBN10: 0195130618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering 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 on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genes, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critical 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 of interest to evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.

Table of Contents

Reciprocal altruism	3	(53)
Parental investment and reproductive success	56	(55)
The Trivers-Willard effect	111	(12)
Parent-offspring conflict	123	(31)
Haplodiploidy and the social insects	154	(53)
Size and reproductive success in a lizard	207	(34)
Selecting good genes for daughters	241	(14)
Self-deception in service of deceit	255	(39)
Genomic imprinting	294	(15)
Fluctuating asymmetry and the 2nd: 4th digit ratio in children	309	(20)
References	329	(6)
Index	335