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Robert Trivers
Researcher at Rutgers University
Publications - 74
Citations - 33330
Robert Trivers is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Digit ratio & Self-deception. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 71 publications receiving 31908 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Trivers include Chapman University & Harvard University.
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Parental investment and sexual selection
TL;DR: The p,cnetics of sex nas now becn clarif ied, and Fishcr ( 1958 ) hrs produccd , n,od"l to cxplarn sex ratios at coDception, a nrodel recently extendcd to include special mccha_ nisms that operate under inbreeding (Hunrilron I96?).
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The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented to account for the natural selection of what is termed reciprocally altruistic behavior, and the model shows how selection can operate against the cheater (non-reciprocator) in the system.
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Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring.
Robert Trivers,Dan E. Willard +1 more
TL;DR: Theory and data suggest that a male in good condition at the end of the period of parental investment is expected to outreproduce a sister in similar condition, while she is expectedto outre produce him if both are in poor condition, and natural selection should favor parental ability to adjust the sex ratio of offspring produced according to parental able to invest.
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Parent-Offspring Conflict
TL;DR: In this paper, the parent-offspring conflict in sexually reproducing species is viewed from the standpoint of the offspring as well as the parent, and it is shown that conflict is an expected feature of such relations.
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Haploidploidy and the evolution of the social insect
Robert Trivers,Hope Hare +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is presented from 20 species that the ratio of investment in monogynous ants is, indeed, about 1 : 3, and this discovery is subject to a series of tests, which provide quantitative evidence in support of kinship theory, sex ratio theory, and the assumption that the offspring is capable of acting counter to its parents' best interests.