Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers

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Modification of adverse conditions by insects (2002, background): “…considerable theory about the effects on fitness of different strategies of cooperative brood rearing (see Wilson 1971, 1975, Choe and Crespi 1997, Trivers 2002, for an introduction to these ideas), but other trade-offs of interest in the present context have not been examined in the same way,…”
The Origin of Behavior (2011, background): “Beginning with the pathbreaking work of Hamilton (1964), Trivers (1971, 1985, 2002), Wilson (1975), and Maynard Smith (1982, 1984), many evolutionary models have been proposed to explain a variety of counter-intuitive behaviors including altruism, cooperation, kin selection, reciprocity, and other…”
How bad is incoherence (2016, background): “According to Trivers’ (1971, 2002) theory of reciprocal altruism, humans possess both altruistic and cheating tendencies.”
Evolving the Psychological Mechanisms for Cooperation (2005, background): “…has been fruitful; indeed, the crowning glory of the sociobiological revolution beginning in the 1960s has been the overwhelming empirical support for its theoretical predictions targeted at adaptive accounts of social behavior (Alcock 2001, Hamilton 1964, Trivers 2002, Williams 1966, Wilson 1975).”