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Author Trivers, Robert.

Title Natural selection and social theory : selected papers of Robert Trivers / Robert Trivers.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  304.5 T739n 2002    ---  Available
Description viii, 345 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Evolution and cognition
Note A collection of 10 papers, 5 published in scholarly journals between 1971-1976 and 5 between 1982-2000.
Reciprocal altruism -- Parental investment and reproductive success -- The Trivers-Willard effect -- Parent-offspring conflict -- Haplodiploidy and the social insects -- Size and reproductive success in a lizard -- Selecting good genes for daughters -- Self-deception in service of deceit -- Genomic imprinting -- Fluctuating asymmmetry and 2nd:4th digit ratio in children.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Reciprocal altruism -- Parental investment and reproductive success -- The Trivers-Willard effect -- Parent-offspring conflict -- Haplodiploidy and the social insects -- Size and reproductive success in a lizard -- Selecting good genes for daughters -- Self-deception in service of deceit -- Genomic imprinting -- Fluctuating asymmmetry and 2nd : 4th digit ratio in children.
Subject Sociobiology.
Evolution (Biology)
Social evolution in animals.
ISBN 0195130626 (pbk.)
0195130618
Standard No. UKM bA2Z6391

 
    
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