Robert Ludlow "Bob" Trivers (/ˈtrɪvərz/; born February 19, 1943) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed the theories...

evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, the Trivers–Willard hypothesis, formally proposed by Robert Trivers and Dan Willard in 1973, suggests that female...

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protection of offspring). Parental investment theory, a term coined by Robert Trivers in 1972, predicts that the sex that invests more in its offspring will...

Biology 7: 1–52. Trivers, R. L. 1971. The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism. The Quarterly Review of Biology 46 (1): 35–57. Trivers, R. L. 1974. Parent-Offspring...

ISBN 0465027555) by Robert Trivers is a book that examines the evolutionary explanations for deceit and self-deception. Trivers focuses primarily on...

similar manner at a later time. The concept was initially developed by Robert Trivers to explain the evolution of cooperation as instances of mutually altruistic...

biologist Robert Trivers after Newton applied to do a reading course with Trivers as part of a graduate degree in history of consciousness. He and Trivers became...

1976 in eleven chapters with a preface by the author and a foreword by Robert Trivers. A second edition was published in 1989. This edition added two extra...

2010. Retrieved 6 August 2010. Trivers R (2002). Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513062-1...

Parent–offspring conflict (POC) is an expression coined in 1974 by Robert Trivers. It is used to describe the evolutionary conflict arising from differences...

retention, mating preferences and conflict between the sexes. In 1972 Robert Trivers published an influential paper on sex differences that is now referred...

Other biologists contemporary to Gould went further, as in the case of Robert Trivers who classified it as "intellectual fraud". In his book Wonderful Life...

often by competing with their siblings. The theory was proposed by Robert Trivers in 1974 and extends the more general selfish gene theory and has been...

including Richard Lee, Robert Trivers, Sarah Hrdy, Peter Ellison, Barbara Smuts, Henry Harpending, Marjorie Shostak, Robert Bailey, Leda Cosmides, John...

Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the...

aspects. It has been driven by the Darwinism associated with Wilson, Robert Trivers, and W. D. Hamilton. The related development of behavioural ecology...

grandmother hypothesis. Parental investment, originally put forth by Robert Trivers, is defined as any benefit a parent confers on an offspring at a cost...

much shorter periods of evolutionary change." Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers accused Gould of being "something of an intellectual fraud" for using...

applied to a wide range of organisms, including humans. Similarly, Robert Trivers, thinking in terms of the gene-centred model, developed the theory of...

Tit for Tat essentially entails the same concept as Trivers' reciprocal altruism. Unlike Trivers' original publication which provides conceptual explanations...

mutualism, increasing the fitness of both individuals. Others such as Robert Trivers hold that it illustrates mutual selfishness, reciprocal altruism. Others...

American Psychological Association. Jefferson, Thomas. [1771] 1975. "Letter to Robert Skipwith", pp. 349–351 in The Portable Thomas Jefferson, M. D. Peterson...

view has been largely discredited by modern research. Formulated by Robert Trivers, parent-offspring theory is important for understanding sibling dynamics...

chapter. Michael Tabor, New York activist and one of the Panther 21. Robert Trivers, evolutionary biologist. Denise Oliver-Vélez, professor, Contributing...

present is based on the expectation of receipt of help in the future. Robert Trivers believes it is advantageous for an organism to pay a cost for the benefit...

a number of evolutionary biologists, including Richard Alexander, Robert Trivers, and George Williams, have argued for a different relation between ethics...

of lifetime parental investment. Parental investment was defined by Robert Trivers in 1972 as "any investment by the parent in an individual offspring...

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colleagues Stephen Jay Gould and Ruth Hubbard responded negatively. Robert Trivers called these accusations "coming from eminent biologists" "intellectually...