Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Natural Selection and Social Theory This volume presents papers from one of the leading figures of sociobiology, each with a contectualizing introduction. It functions as a portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with insights pertaining to evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 05 September 2002
- Format: Paperback 356 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Sociology | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography | Psychology | Evolution | Zoology & Animal Sciences | Human Biology
- ISBN 13: 9780195130621 ISBN 10: 0195130626
- Sales rank: 484,525
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Full description for Natural Selection and Social Theory
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 work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genese, 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 of interest to evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology.
