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Publications

Robert Trivers

Books

Trivers, R. (Forthcoming, October 2011) The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-deception in Human Life. New York: Basic Books. [to be published in the UK as Deceit and Self-deception: Fooling Ourselves the
Better to Fool Others. London: Penguin]

Burt, A. & Trivers, R. (2006) Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Trivers, R. (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers. Evolution and cognition. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.

Trivers, R. (1985) Social Evolution. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings.

Journal Articles

Von Hippell, B. and Trivers, R. (2011) The evolution and psychology of self-deceptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences (target article) 34: 1-56.

Zaatari, D., Palestis, B. G. & Trivers, R. (2009) Fluctuating asymmetry of responders affects offers in the Ultimatum Game oppositely according to attractiveness or need as perceived by proposersEthology 115, 627-632.

Trivers, R. (2009). Genetic conflict within the individual. Berlin: Sonderdruck der Berliner-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschschaften 14, 149-199.

Zaatari, D. & Trivers, R. (2007) Fluctuating asymmetry and behavior in the ultimatum game in JamaicaEvolution and Human Behavior 28, 223-227.

Palestis, B. G., Burt, A., Jones, R. N. & Trivers, R. (2004) B chromosomes are more frequent in mammals with acrocentric karyotypes: support for the theory of centromeric driveProceedings of the Royal Society (B) Supplement 271, S22-S24.

Penton-Voak, I. S., Jacobson, A. & Trivers, R. (2004) Population differences in attractiveness judgments of faces: comparing a British and Jamaican sampleEvolution and Human Behavior 25, 355-370.

Manning, J. T., Trivers, R., Thornhill, R. & Singh, D. (2000) The 2nd:4th digit ratio and hand preference in Jamaican childrenLaterality 5, 121-132.

Trivers, R. L. (2000) The elements of a scientific theory of self-deceptionAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907, 114-131.

Trivers, R., Manning, J., Thornhill, R., Singh, D. & McGuire, M. (1999) The Jamaican symmetry project: a long-term study of fluctuating asymmetry in rural Jamaican childrenHuman Biology 71, 419-432.

Seger, J. & Trivers, R. (1986) Asymmetry in the evolution of female mating preferencesNature 319, 771-773.

Book Chapters

Trivers, R. (2010). Deceit and self-deception. In Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origin of Human Universals (eds. P. M. Kappeler and J. B. Silk), pp. 373-394. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Trivers, R. (2005) Reciprocal altruism: 30 years later. In Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution (ed. C. P. v. Schaik & P. M. Kappeler), pp. 67-83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Commentaries

Trivers, R. (2004) Mutual Benefits at All Levels of LifeScience 304, 964-965.