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	Robert L. Trivers
		Burt, A., and Trivers, R. Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements.
		Trivers, R, Burt, A, and Palestis, B.G. B chromosomes and genome size in flowering plants.
		Trivers, R. The elements of a scientific theory of self-deception.
	anthro.rutgers.edu /faculty/trivers.shtml (1253 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| The kindness of strangers
		Trivers' early work set the foundation for a biologically based system of ethics, in which a preference for some sorts of justice was part of our nature.
		Trivers was disinclined to allow it to be published: "My first wife, a wonderful woman, used to refer to Dick as the Selfish Gene, just because of the way he acts"; however, he has now relented and Dawkins confirms it will appear in future editions.
		Trivers also wrote a textbook of animal behaviour, which failed in its purpose of assuring him of a small income for life, but proved influential in the way the subject was taught.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,1557073,00.html (3572 words)

	World renowned social evolution theorist Robert Trivers to be honored
		Trivers, a celebrated social theorist and evolutionary biologist, is a professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
		Trivers redefined the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology by applying the theory of natural selection to the evolution of social behavior — exploring the logic by which social traits are favored by natural selection and evolve through time like physical characteristics.
		More recently, Trivers shifted gears to the consideration of the biological evolution of "selfish genetic elements," genes within an individual which advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-05/rtsu-wrs051005.php (412 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		Trivers' account of sex ratio and disease avirulence provides two examples of this disappearing act, which Chapter 1 of UO describes in much greater detail, but the best example of the averaging fallacy is the concept of the selfish gene.
		Trivers says that natural selection has caused the behavior to evolve, and concludes that it is a waste of time to consider whether parents are egoists or altruists (or both) in their psychological motivation.
		Trivers is wrong to think that their questions have already been answered or rendered moot by the mere fact that parental care is adaptive.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?3041 (7119 words)

	Robert Trivers Interview
		ROBERT: I have considerable difficulty with that notion, except in the sense that you probably don't mean it: that the environment consists of other living creatures, and so the environment and the species we're considering both evolve.
		ROBERT: I think put in that extreme form one would tend to place one's bet with the species that embraced novelty, just because novelty is intrinsic to the living world.
		ROBERT: Well, you see this is the conflict between a teleological or orthogenetic view of evolution, and one that always insists that natural selection be behind it.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/trivers.htm (4247 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The evolutionary revolutionary
		Robert Trivers with bedside reading in 1985 (center) and with Black Panther leader Huey Newton, who was a close friend and godfather to his daughter.
		If Hamilton was right, Trivers reasoned, this meant that females, who had more at stake in each of their offspring, would be more choosy about their mates, and that males, who had less, would compete with each other for the chance to inseminate as many females as possible.
		Trivers seems unable not to be forthcoming, yet he is leery of letting the more sensational aspects of his biography and personality overshadow his work.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/27/the_evolutionary_revolutionary?pg=full (1787 words)

	The Amherst Student Online
		Robert Trivers, a professor of anthropology and biological studies at Rutgers University, gave lectures on Monday and Tuesday during his 33rd trip to the College.
		A well-known sociobiologist, Trivers is most renowned for his revolutionary theories on the evolution of social behavior—specifically, how genes influence the behavior of parents and offspring, how people choose mates and how they interact to get what they want from others in their social groups.
		Trivers explained that the existence of these driving genes has been “discussed since way back in the ’20s, but it was viewed then as a slight deviation from Mendel’s laws,” he said.
	halogen.note.amherst.edu /~astudent/2002-2003/issue12/news/06.html (921 words)

	Replicating Genes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the controversial field of sociobiology, there is no one as controversial as Robert Trivers, for he has certainly been the most daring in applying the "selfish gene" theory of sociobiology to human behavior and psychology.
		Recognized as one of the world's most eminent sociobiologists, Robert Trivers was born in 1943 in Washington D.C. to a Foreign Service Officer and a poet, as the second of seven children.
		Trivers is perhaps most famous for his theory of reciprocal altruism, which is a model for explaining and predicting altruism in animals precisely based on return-effect or chances of reciprocity.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/tri-int.htm (400 words)

	Trivers, Robert L - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Trivers, Robert L
		He defended the controversial theory that human behavioural traits (e.g., mate selection and altruism) are genetically determined, and he made significant contributions to studies of ‘selfish’ genes, blood parasites and sexual selection in Jamaican lizards, biology and the law, and studies of symmetry in humans and other animals.
		Trivers was a person of flamboyant temperament, who, while Caucasian, had identified with fls since childhood and espoused fl culture.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Trivers,+Robert+L (189 words)

	Robert Trivers - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert L. Trivers, (born 19 February 1943) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974).
		Trivers and Newton became close friends, Newton was godfather to one of Trivers' daughters.
		Trivers and Newton published an analysis of the role of self-deception by the flight crew in the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 (Trivers, R.L. and Newton, H.P. Science Digest 'The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?' November 1982, pp 66,67,111).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Robert_Trivers (507 words)

	Steve Sailer: iSteve.com Blog Archives: Robert Trivers
		Robert Trivers: Ranking with William D. Hamilton as one of the great creative geniuses of sociobiology, Trivers's roller-coaster career has been buffetted about by his manic-depression.
		Robert Trivers could have been one of the great romantic heroes of 20th-century science if he'd died in the 70s, as some people supposed he would...
		Trivers says of his old enemy Stephen Jay Gould's theory that the female orgasm was merely a by- product of the fact that the opposite sex has them, "It makes you wonder just how close Steve had ever been to that blessed event if he thought it was a side-effect..."
	isteve.blogspot.com /2005/08/robert-trivers.html (390 words)

	ROBERT TRIVERS—An Edge Special event
		In the fifth case Trivers pointed out that all of us have a motive to portray ourselves as more honorable than we really are, and that since the best liar is the one who believes his own lies, the mind should be "designed" by natural selection to deceive itself.
		Trivers has explained why our social and mental lives are more interesting than those of bugs and frogs and why novelists, psychotherapists, and philosophers (in the old sense of wise commentators on the human condition) will always have something to write about.
		ROBERT Trivers' scientific work has concentrated on two areas, social theory based on natural selection (of which a theory of self-deception is one part) and new work on selfish genetic elements (which leads to certain kinds of internal genetic conflicts).
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/trivers04/trivers04_index.html (6415 words)

	Natural Selection and Social Theory : Selected Papers of Robert Trivers (Evolution and Cognition Series) - $36.18- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trivers is a compelling writer and this book is a true gift to anybody curious about human psyche and behaviour.
		Trivers' thinking is as eclectic and far ranging as the list of his friends and enemies, and while many of his subjects (altruism, parent-offspring conflict, fluctuating asymmetry, etc.) are still at the cutting edge of evolutionary thought, his writing is sufficiently free of jargon that I think it will draw in even the non-specialist.
		Robert Trivers is a pioneering figure in the field of sociobiology.
	more-kitchen.com /goods0195130626.html (568 words)

	ABS Annual Meeting 2000 - Trivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, will deliver the Keynote address at the 37th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, which is sponsored by Morehouse College and Zoo Atlanta.
		Trivers is currently Distinguished Research Fellow in Genetics and the Law, at Arizona State Law School.
		Trivers' work with Jamaican school children represents the most detailed set of body measurements on symmetry available for any group of human beings anywhere in the world.
	www.animalbehavior.org /ABS/Stars/KeynoteFellows/2000ABSPress_trivers.html (371 words)

	North Western Winds
		That was when Robert Trivers and others began to find ways of modeling how selfless acts can be a benefit.
		Richard Dawkins uses his expertise to stump for atheism all the time and Richard Lewontin has said something to the effect that "good science challenges social structures." Trivers himself might tend left but the results of his ideas, and of those working in his wake, are a challenge to both sides of the spectrum.
		By showing that human relations are always under tension (to give or take), Triver's work suggests to me that a healthy, prosperous society needs to constantly balance those tensions and resist the temptation to let adherence to one or the other warp and distort it.
	northwesternwinds.blogspot.com /2005/10/meet-pavlov.html (2080 words)

	KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Robert L. Trivers
		Trivers, R.L. Manning, J. Thornhill, R. /Singh, D./McGuire, M.T. The Jamaican asymmetry project: Long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican children.
		Polak, M. Trivers, R.L. The science of symmetry in biology.
		Trivers, R.L. Deceit and self-deception: The relationship between communication and consciousness.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/T/TriversRL.html (135 words)

	Harvard University Press: Genes in Conflict
		As Austin Burt and Robert Trivers show, these selfish genes are a universal feature of life with pervasive effects, including numerous counter-adaptations.
		Burt and Trivers give us access for the first time to a crucial area of research--now developing at an explosive rate--that is cohering as a unitary whole, with its own logic and interconnected questions, a subject certain to be of enduring importance to our understanding of genetics and evolution.
		Robert Trivers is Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BURGEN.html (280 words)

	Obituary by R. Trivers
		For the latter he argued that the more-or-less closed spaces created by rotting wood imposed a system of small, inbred subpopulations in insects inhabiting it, leading to a great diversity of homozygous forms, often with arbitrary, novel characters (such as a second complete metamorphosis in many male scale insects).
		In 1981 with Robert Axelrod he laid the mathematical foundation for the study of reciprocal altruism, when they showed that the simple rule of tit-for-tat in playing iterated games of Prisoner's Dilemma was itself evolutionarily stable.
		Robert Trivers is in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunwsick, New Jersey 08901-1414, USA.
	www.unifr.ch /biol/ecology/hamilton/hamilton/trivers.html (1063 words)

	hot news - biology seminars with robert l. trivers, nov. 9 and 10
		Robert L. Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, NJ, will speak Wednesday November 9th, 12 noon, Lundgren Room 304c, Lyman Hall, 108 College Place on "Internal genetic conflict: the evolution of selfish genetic elements."
		Abstract: Using motion capture cameras to isolate the phenotype of the dance from the phenotype of the dancer, we were able to show that degree of bodily symmetry has important effects on dancing ability and ability to discriminate dance ability in a Jamaican population.
		Robert L. Trivers is one of the world's most brilliant theoretical evolutionary biologists.
	www.syr.edu /news/2005-11-03_7967.html (236 words)

	Behind the evolution of social theory by Marlene Zuk
		And certainly no one is in a better position to provide such a guide than Robert Trivers, who single-handedly shaped current thought on topics in sociobiology and evolution ranging from sex ratios to parent-offspring conflict to reproductive strategies.
		He also bemoans the lack of interest in his work from social scientists, and it is clear that the high hopes of sociobiologists for a widespread revolution in thinking about human nature have not materialized.
		This may not be surprising, given Trivers’ dismissal of psychology as “not, in fact, a real discipline, but rather a competing set of hypotheses about what was important in human behavior” (p.
	human-nature.com /ep/reviews/ep02911.html (793 words)

	IT Conversations: Robert Trivers - What Do We Know
		Robert Trivers talks about the evolutionary basis of deception in this address from Pop!Tech 2005.
		Robert is also the author of Social Evolution, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers.
		In addition, each is book-ended between a two short essays outlining the background to Professor Trivers' initial exploration and thinking behind the paper, often including quite intriguing sociological contexts.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail787.html (499 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: On Trivers
		I had the privelege of meeting Trivers at a little conference I helped Tyler Cowen and Robin Hanson organize on self-deception while I was at Mercatus.
		I had the privelege of meeting Trivers at a little conference I helped Tyler Cowen & Robin Hanson organize on self-deception while I was at Mercatus.
		Trivers is undoubtedly one of the weirdest people I've ever met.
	www.willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2005/03/on_trivers.html (279 words)

	Slavin & Kriegman: The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche
		It has achieved far more credibility as a method of treating psychological problems, and there its adherents consist mainly of its beneficiaries, that is, those who have gained personally from it, or from its offspring, psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
		It is contemporary evolutionary biological theory, largely through the work of Robert Trivers, that has vastly increased our understanding of the social environment.
		The basic universal features of the human psyche are a result of their having conferred an adaptive advantage on our ancestors; those humans who had these features were more successful at negotiating the complex relations dilemmas and paradoxes that faced them and were more successful, ultimately, at reproducing and surviving in that social environment.
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Slavin_Kriegman_92.html (1073 words)

	Edge: ROBERT TRIVERS
		ROBERT TRIVERS' scientific work has concentrated on two areas, social theory based on natural selection (of which a theory of self-deception is one part) and the biology of selfish genetic elements (which leads to certain kinds of internal genetic conflicts).
		Trivers is a frequent, featured speaker at international academic meetings (e.g.
		Robert Trivers: A FULL-FORCE STORM WITH GALE WINDS BLOWING
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/trivers.html (182 words)

	UH News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Robert Trivers is best known for his theories on the evolution of social behavior--specifically, how genes influence the behavior of parents and offspring, how people choose mates and how they interact to get what they want from others in their social groups.
		Trivers is also developing theories about the pattern of gene expression that leads to 'turning off' certain genes in certain body tissues and whether some areas of the brain are under the genetic control of genes passed from only one parent.
		Embryologists have already discovered that it is not enough to have two copies of a gene (one from each parent) to develop normally; the right copy has to be 'turned on' in the right type of cell.
	www.hawaii.edu /ur/News_Releases/NR_Sept99/trivers.html (383 words)

	Robert Trivers Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Robert Trivers may well be the most influential thinker in the field of evolutionary biology alive today.
		His return has sparked a buzz in the scientific establishment and marks the beginning of a major upheaval in the world of evolutionary biology.
		Robert Trivers was just in his twenties and a graduate student when he published a series of five papers in evolutionary biology that were amongst the most influential ever published.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/roberttrivers.html (346 words)

	Rutgers News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trivers re-defined the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology by applying the theory of natural selection to the evolution of social behavior — exploring the logic by which social traits are favored by natural selection and evolve through time like physical characteristics.
		In tracking these children over time, Trivers has become specifically interested in the health of the children, their long-term growth and development, and the social behavior they display.
		Permission is granted to use the photo in connection with news coverage of this story.
	ur.rutgers.edu /medrel/viewAvant.html?ArticleID=4510 (430 words)

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