Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition) - Couverture souple

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Trivers, Robert

 
9780195130621: Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition)
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ISBN 10 : 0195130626 ISBN 13 : 9780195130621
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

This is a good book by a great evolutionary biologist, full of interesting personal narrative and readable and historically important papers on reciprocal altruism, sex ratios, parental investment and sexual selection, and much more. (Animal Behaviour)

One striking feature of Trivers' papers is that most contain very little mathematics, but there is plenty of verbal logic ... the book is suitable for reading in bed with falling asleep over pages of baffling formulae ... interesting stuff. (Animal Behaviour)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195130626
ISBN 13 
9780195130621
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
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9780195130614: Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert L. Trivers

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195130618 ISBN 13 :  9780195130614
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2002
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