Robert Trivers

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Robert Trivers is affiliated with the following schools: Rutgers University, University of California, Santa Cruz, Harvard University

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Robert Trivers

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#57

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#105

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#36

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Evolutionary Biology

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#13

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Ludlow "Bob" Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism , parental investment , facultative sex ratio determination , and parent–offspring conflict . He has also contributed by explaining self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy and discussing intragenomic conflict.

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Robert Trivers's Published Works

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Parental investment and sexual selection (1972) (10745)
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism (1971) (9647)
Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring (1973) (3617)
Parent-Offspring Conflict (1974) (2570)
Haploidploidy and the evolution of the social insect. (1976) (1142)
Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements (2006) (670)
The evolution and psychology of self-deception. (2011) (511)
The Elements of a Scientific Theory of Self‐Deception (2000) (319)
A longitudinal study of digit ratio (2D:4D) and other finger ratios in Jamaican children (2006) (298)
SEXUAL SELECTION AND RESOURCE‐ACCRUING ABILITIES IN ANOLIS GARMANI (1976) (292)
Haplodiploidy and the Evolution of the Social Insects (2008) (286)
Sex and ethnic differences in 2nd to 4th digit ratio of children. (2004) (272)
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (2011) (208)
Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces: Comparing British and Jamaican samples (2004) (198)
The 2nd:4th digit ratio and asymmetry of hand performance in Jamaican children (2000) (174)
Dance reveals symmetry especially in young men (2005) (165)
The mystery of female beauty (1999) (148)
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (2002) (129)
Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later (2006) (117)
Deceit and self-deception : fooling yourself the better to fool others (2013) (111)
Digit ratio (2D:4D) in Klinefelter's syndrome (2013) (95)
The science of symmetry in biology. (1994) (83)
B chromosomes and genome size in flowering plants. (2004) (82)
Jamaican Symmetry Project: long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican children. (1999) (76)
Mutual Benefits at All Levels of Life (2004) (74)
The distribution of B chromosomes across species (2004) (71)
Fluctuating asymmetry and behavior in the ultimatum game in Jamaica (2007) (68)
Deceit and self-deception. The relationship between communication and consciousness (1991) (67)
2nd to 4th digit ratio and offspring sex ratio. (2002) (66)
Asymmetry in the evolution of female mating preferences (1986) (57)
Kinship and genomic imprinting. (1999) (56)
Selfish DNA and breeding system in flowering plants (1998) (55)
PHYLETIC HOT SPOTS FOR B CHROMOSOMES IN ANGIOSPERMS (2005) (51)
Deceit and Self-Deception (2011) (46)
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion (2017) (45)
B chromosomes are more frequent in mammals with acrocentric karyotypes: support for the theory of centromeric drive (2004) (43)
Human Behavioural Ecology (2003) (42)
The Role of Overconfidence in Romantic Desirability and Competition (2015) (41)
Reflections on self-deception (2011) (39)
Ear asymmetry and left-side cradling (1997) (38)
II Parental investment and sexual selection (1972) (38)
Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Gender Inequalities Across Nations (2014) (35)
Body symmetry and physical strength in human males (2014) (31)
Lower Body Symmetry and Running Performance in Elite Jamaican Track and Field Athletes (2014) (28)
Fluctuating Asymmetry of Responders Affects Offers in the Ultimatum Game Oppositely According to Attractiveness or Need as Perceived by Proposers (2009) (28)
A Preregistered Study of Competing Predictions Suggests That Men Do Overestimate Women’s Sexual Intent (2017) (26)
Is Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Related to Masculinity and Femininity? Evidence from the BBC Internet Study (2017) (22)
The Evolution of Sex (1983) (18)
The Symmetry of Children’s Knees Is Linked to Their Adult Sprinting Speed and Their Willingness to Sprint in a Long-Term Jamaican Study (2013) (17)
Prevalence of B chromosomes in Orthoptera is associated with shape and number of A chromosomes (2010) (17)
A Longitudinal Study of Digit Ratio (2D:4D) and Its Relationships with Adult Running Speed in Jamaicans (2013) (16)
A Longitudinal Study of Changes in Fluctuating Asymmetry with Age in Jamaican Youth (2016) (13)
Genetic basis of intrapsychic conflict. (1997) (12)
The aging positivity effect and immune function: positivity in recall predicts higher CD4 counts and lower CD4 activation. (2014) (11)
Religious Devotion and Extrinsic Religiosity Affect In-group Altruism and Out-group Hostility Oppositely in Rural Jamaica (2017) (9)
Self-deception inhibits laughter (2012) (9)
Cognitive simplicity and self-deception are crucial in martyrdom and suicide terrorism (2014) (8)
Obituary: William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000) (2000) (8)
The effects of sex, nation, ethnicity, age and self-reported pubertal development on participant-measured right-left 2D:4D (Dr-l) in the BBC internet study. (2022) (7)
The Anatomy of a Fraud (2013) (6)
Radiographic digit ratios (2D:4D) of Afro-Caribbean children: Comparisons with published data from white children. (2020) (5)
Number of friends and self-perception among Jamaican children: the role of attractiveness and fluctuating asymmetry. (2020) (5)
Retraction: Dance reveals symmetry especially in young men (2013) (5)
The better to fool you with: Deception and self-deception. (2022) (4)
Symmetry and Dance: A Case of Scientific Fraud (2014) (3)
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and body mass index in the BBC Internet Study: prenatal sex steroids and a Trivers-Willard effect on body composition. (2021) (3)
Digit Ratio (2D:4D), Transgendered Belief, and Transsexual Drug Therapy in the BBC Internet Study (2020) (3)
Deriving Females and Feminism (1994) (2)
Parental income inequality and children's digit ratio (2D:4D): a 'Trivers-Willard' effect on prenatal androgenization? (2021) (2)
FIVE Selfish Mitochondrial DNA (2006) (2)
TEN Genomic Exclusion (2006) (1)
The social behaviour of monkeys. By Thelma Rowell. 203 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. Penguin Books, Baltimore. 1973. $2.50 (paper) (1974) (1)
Is Digit Ratio (2D:4D) Related to Masculinity and Femininity? Evidence from the BBC Internet Study (2017) (1)
Biology of Human Gender, The (2021) (1)
ONE Selfish Genetic Elements (2006) (1)
NINE B Chromosomes (2006) (1)
Irven DeVore, 1934–2014 (2015) (1)
Review : The Evolution of Sex Author ( s ) : Robert Trivers Source : The Quarterly Review of Biology (2010) (1)
Self-deception to deceive others (2012) (1)
SEVEN Transposable Elements (2006) (1)
Symmetry and Dance (2012) (1)
Evolutionary Bases of Social Behavior@@@Social Evolution. (1985) (0)
Is Foot Asymmetry a Correlate of Hand Performance Asymmetry? Evidence from the Jamaican Symmetry Project (2014) (0)
The2nd:4thdigitratioandasymmetryofhand performanceinJamaicanchildren (2000) (0)
Contents Vol. 106, 2004 (2004) (0)
Book Review:The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat. Paul W. Sherman, Jennifer U. M. Jarvis, Richard D. Alexander (1991) (0)
Monkey Into Man. A film by JULIAN HUXLEY and S. ZUCKERMAN (1973) (0)
TWO Autosomal Killers (2006) (0)
Religious Devotion and Extrinsic Religiosity Affect In-group Altruism and Out-group Hostility Oppositely in Rural Jamaica (2017) (0)
Chapter 18 P 3 , 373-~ Y Deceit and Self-Deception (2010) (0)
FOUR Genomic Imprinting (2006) (0)
TWELVE Summary and Future Directions (2006) (0)
SIX Gene Conversion and Homing (2006) (0)
Evolution of Good and Evil. A film by LOREN EISELEY (1973) (0)
Social Behaviour: Profile: Social theory based on natural selection (2010) (0)
2 . Direct reciprocity In 1971 , (2006) (0)
Is Foot Asymmetry a Correlate of Hand Performance Asymmetry? Evidence from the Jamaican Symmetry Project (2015) (0)
Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior: Nancy Segal, Dutton, New York, 1999, 396 pp. ISBN: 0525944656, Hardcover, $27.95 (US) (2000) (0)
EIGHT Female Drive (2006) (0)
Inside knowledge (2020) (0)
Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective (2022) (0)
Experiments in evolution: the eradication of malaria? (2018) (0)
Chapter 4: Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later (2006) (0)
Digit Ratio (2D:4D), Transgendered Belief, and Transsexual Drug Therapy in the BBC Internet Study (2020) (0)
THREE Selfish Sex Chromosomes (2006) (0)
Foreword by Robert L. Trivers (2004) (0)
ELEVEN Selfish Cell Lineages (2006) (0)
Sexuality: Costs and Benefits: The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex . Michael T. Ghiselin. University of California Press,. Berkeley,. 1974. xii, 346 pp. $12.95. (1974) (0)

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