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Robert Trivers
Robert TriversEvolutionary biology and evolutionary psychologyAmericanb. 1943
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Robert Trivers is an evolutionary biologist and one of the founding figures of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, whose foundational theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and parent-offspring conflict transformed how biologists understand social behavior. He has also developed a theory of self-deception, explaining the evolutionary roots of self-deceit in the human mind.
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