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Robert Trivers (* 19. Februar 1943) in Washington (D.C.) ist ein US-amerikanischer Soziobiologe und Evolutionsbiologe. Er wurde vor allem bekannt durch das Konzept des reziproken Altruismus.

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Robert L. Trivers wurde am 19. Februar 1943 in Washington DC geboren. Er war das zweite von sieben Kindern eines Angestellten im Auswärtigen Dienst. 1956 lebte er kurze Zeit in Berlin. Nach der Aufnahme eines Mathematikstudiums an der Harvard-Universität wechselte er zur Geschichte und erreichte 1965 seinen Bachelor in Amerikanischer Geschichte. Für zwei Jahre schrieb und illustrierte er Kinderbücher. Trivers kehrte dann nach Harvard zurück um von 1968 – 1972 Biologie zu studieren und erreichte seinen Doktorgrad 1972. Von 1973 – 1978 war er Dozent in Harvard. 1978 ging Trivers an die University of California, Santa Cruz, wo er bis 1994 blieb. Seit 1994 ist er Professor für Anthropologie und Biologie an der Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey).

Robert Trivers war schon immer an schwarzer Kultur interessiert. Er trat 1979 den Schwarzen Panthern bei. Die Schwarzen Panther waren eine afrikanisch, amerikanische ‚Black Power’ Bewegung, die 1966 durch Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale gegründet wurde. Die Gruppe hatte in den USA über 5000 Mitglieder.


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Robert L. Trivers, (born 19 February 1943, pronounced /ˈtrɪvɚz/) 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). Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception (first described in 1976) and intragenomic conflict. Along with George C. Williams, Trivers is arguably one of the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today.

A 1961 graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Trivers went to Harvard to study mathematics, but wound up studying U.S. history in preparation to become a lawyer. He took a psychology class after suffering a breakdown, and was very unimpressed with the state of psychology. He was prevented from getting into Yale law school by his breakdown, and wound up with a job writing social science textbooks for children (never published, due in part to presenting evolution by natural selection as fact). This exposure to evolutionary theory led him to do graduate work with Ernst Mayr at Harvard 1968-1972 (he never got a bachelor's degree anywhere). He was on faculty at Harvard 1973-1978, then moved to UC Santa Cruz.

He met Huey P. Newton, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, in 1978 when Newton applied (while in prison) to do a reading course with him as part of a graduate degree in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Trivers and Newton became close friends: Newton was even godfather to one of Trivers' daughters. Trivers joined the Black Panther Party in 1979. Trivers and Newton published an analysis of the role of self-deception by the flight crew in the crash of Air Florida Flight 90.[1]

Trivers was a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz 1978-1994. He is currently a Rutgers University notable faculty member.

He wrote the original foreword to Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and was recently awarded the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences for "his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict and cooperation".[2][3]


Political views

Trivers is a harsh critic of Israeli government policies. He has called Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, "nazi-like" and "a skunk" for his defense of Israel government policies.[4]


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  1. ^ Trivers, R.L. & Newton, H.P. Science Digest 'The crash of flight 90: doomed by self-deception?' November 1982, pp 66,67,111.
  2. ^ The Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2007. The Crafoord Prize (website) (2007-01-18). Retrieved on 2007-01-29.
  3. ^ "Jamaican-born (sic) scientist gets top award", Jamaica Gleaner, 2007-01-29. Retrieved on 2007-01-29. 
  4. ^ The Harvard Crimson :: News :: In Speech, Trivers Derides Dershowitz


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