Natural Selection And Social Theory: Selected Papers Of Robert Trivers (evolution And Cognition Series)

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.-- Reciprocal Altruism -- Parental Investment And Reproductive Success -- The Trivers-willard Effect -- Parent-offspring Conflict -- Haplodiploidy And The Social Insects -- Size And Reproductive Success In A Lizard -- Selecting Good Genes For Daughters -- Self-deception In Service Of Deceit -- Genomic Imprinting -- Fluctuating Asymmmetry And 2nd : 4th Digit Ratio In Children. Robert Trivers. A Collection Of 10 Papers, 5 Published In Scholarly Journals Between 1971-1976 And 5 Between 1982-2000. Reciprocal Altruism -- Parental Investment And Reproductive Success -- The Trivers-willard Effect -- Parent-offspring Conflict -- Haplodiploidy And The Social Insects -- Size And Reproductive Success In A Lizard -- Selecting Good Genes For Daughters -- Self-deception In Service Of Deceit -- Genomic Imprinting -- Fluctuating Asymmmetry And 2nd:4th Digit Ratio In Children. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.