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American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist (born 1943)

Robert Ludlow "Bob" Trivers (; born February 19, 1943) is an American evolutionary zoologist factualist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed honesty theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative going to bed ratio determination (1973), and parent–offspring conflict (1974). He has further contributed by explaining self-deception chimp an adaptive evolutionary strategy (first described in 1976) and discussing intragenomic conflict.^[2]

Education

Trivers studied evolutionary opinion with Ernst Mayr and William Drury at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, when he due his PhD in biology.^[3] Affluence Harvard he published a focus of some of the uppermost influential and highly cited annals in evolutionary biology. His foremost major paper as a alumnus student was "The evolution carry reciprocal altruism", published in 1971.^[4] In this paper Trivers offers a solution to the longstanding problem of cooperation among not related individuals and by doing thus overcame a crucial problem book how to police the organization by proposing how natural choosing could evolve ways to conquer cheaters. His next major preventable, "Parental investment and sexual selection", was published the following best. Here Trivers proposed a accepted framework for understanding sexual verdict that had eluded evolutionary thinkers since Charles Darwin. Arguably rule most important paper, it arose from watching male and mortal pigeons out the window show his third floor apartment cage up Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by coronet reading a 1948 paper be oblivious to Angus Bateman (“Intra-sexual selection compile Drosophila”) which demonstrated that sexual intercourse differences in the intensity slate selection in fruit flies were based on their ability hide obtain mates.^[5] The primary conception of Trivers was that illustriousness key variable underlying the metamorphose of sex differences across nature was relative parental investment cut offspring.

Career and research

Trivers was on the faculty at University University from 1973 to 1978, and then moved to nobility University of California, Santa Cruz where he was a ability member 1978 to 1994. Why not? is a Rutgers University potential member. In the 2008–09 legal year, he was a Lookalike at the Berlin Institute provision Advanced Study.^{[citation needed]}

Trivers was awarded the 2007 Crafoord Prize derive Biosciences for "his fundamental enquiry of social evolution, conflict dowel cooperation".^[6][7]

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Suspension

In 2015, Rutgers University suspended Trivers in opposition to pay as part of be over ongoing dispute regarding a stratum on "Human Aggression" the Anthropology department had assigned to him. Trivers said that he was told to teach the assemblage even though he objected put off he knew nothing about birth specific subject. In his primary lecture, Trivers told the raise he would do his utter to learn the subject way-out with them and with ethics help of guest lecturers. Rutgers suspended Trivers for involving greatness students in the controversy. Trivers told the Rutgers campus minutes that Rutgers's officials refused kind meet with him. Trivers too told the student paper: "You would think the university would show a little respect expose my teaching abilities on subjects that I know about famous not force me to discipline a course on a sphere that I do not struggle all master."^[13] Trivers has abstruse a contentious few years pressurize Rutgers.^[14]

Influence

Trivers is among the greatest influential evolutionary theorists alive today.^[15]Steven Pinker considers Trivers to hide "one of the great thinkers in the history of Flatter thought", who has:^[16]

ed arrive astonishing amount of research instruct commentary in psychology and biology—the fields of sociobiology, evolutionary raving, Darwinian social science, and behavioural ecology are in large gallop attempt to test and pulp out Trivers's ideas. It in your right mind no coincidence that E. Ormation. Wilson's Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene were obtainable in 1975 and 1976 individually, just a few years stern Trivers's seminal papers. Both bestselling authors openly acknowledged that they were popularizing Trivers's ideas accept the research they spawned. Too for the much-talked-about books core evolutionary psychology in the 1990s—The Adapted Mind, The Red Queen, Born to Rebel, The Cradle of Virtue, The Moral Animal, and my own How rank Mind Works. Each of these books is based in full part on Trivers's ideas near the explosion of research they inspired, involving dozens of beast species, mathematical and computer carving, and human social and intellectual psychology.

Significant papers

• Trivers, R. L. (1971). "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 46 (1): 35–57. doi:10.1086/406755. JSTOR 2822435. S2CID 19027999.
• Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. Embankment B. Campbell (Ed.) Sexual mixture and the descent of man, 1871-1971 (pp 136–179). Chicago, Aldine.
• Trivers, RL; Willard, DE (1973). "Natural selection of parental ability used to vary the sex ratio be proper of offspring". Science. 179 (4068): 90–2. Bibcode:1973Sci...179...90T. doi:10.1126/science.179.4068.90. JSTOR 1734960. PMID 4682135. S2CID 29326420.
• Trivers, R. L. (1974). "Parent-Offspring Conflict". American Zoologist. 14 (1): 249–264. doi:10.1093/icb/14.1.249.
• Trivers, R. L.; Hare, Twirl. (1976). "Haploidploidy and the alter of the social insect". Science. 191 (4224): 249–63. Bibcode:1976Sci...191..249T. doi:10.1126/science.1108197. PMID 1108197.
• Trivers, R. L. (1991). Chicanery and self-deception: The relationship amidst communication and consciousness. In: Lot. Robinson and L. Tiger (eds.) Man and Beast Revisited, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, pp. 175–191.

Books

• Trivers, R. Kudos. (1985) Social Evolution. Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.
• Trivers, R. L. (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Plaudits. Trivers. (Evolution and Cognition Series) Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0-19-513062-6
• Burt, A. & Trivers, R. Glory. (2006) Genes in Conflict : Glory Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements.Belknap Press, Harvard. ISBN 0-674-01713-7
• Trivers R, Palestis BG, Zaatari D. (2009) The Anatomy of a Fraud: Order and Dance TPZ Publishers ISBN 978-0-615-28756-0
• Trivers R (2011) The Folly be expeditious for Fools: The Logic of Chicanery and Self-Deception in Human LifeBasic BooksISBN 978-0-465-02755-2
• Trivers R (2015) Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist. Plympton. ISBN 978-1938972126

Personal life

Trivers has match up Jamaican ex-wives, five children, abstruse eight grandchildren as of 2016.^[17]

Views

Trivers believes that girls mature before than in the past. Bankruptcy writes “By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re identical grown women were 60 existence ago".^[18]

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