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Wild life : adventures of an evolutionary biologist / Robert Trivers.

by Trivers, Robert.

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Biosocial Research Publications, 2015.

Trivers, Robert, 1943-

Biologists -- United States -- Biography.

Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.

Scientists -- United States -- Biography.

College teachers -- United States -- Biography.

Evolution (Biology) -- Anecdotes.

9781938972126 (pbk.)

1938972120 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Adventures of an evolutionary biologist

xi, 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

His theories on the evolutionary tensions between parent and offspring, sibling and sibling, man and woman, friend and friend, and a person and himself or herself have not only revolutionized genetics and evolutionary biology but have influenced medicine and the social sciences. Unlike other scientists, Trivers has spent time behind bars, drove a getaway car for Huey P. Newton, and founded an armed group in Jamaica to protect gay men from mob violence. Now, he tell us in his inimitable voice about the life behind his revolutionary science. He comments on everything from American racism to the history of psychiatry to who killed Peter Tosh, musical heir to Bob Marley. Anecdotes about such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, for anyone with an interest in science, the human condition, or the nature of creative genius. Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, who is a Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative sex ratio determination (1973), and parent–offspring conflict (1974). He has also contributed by explaining self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy (first described in 1976).

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