Wild life : adventures of an evolutionary biologist
Robert Trivers (Author)
"Robert Trivers is a living legend in biology and the social sciences, a man the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker calls ''one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought" and Time magazine named one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of the 20th century. His theories on the evolutionary tensions between parent and offspring, sibling and sibling, man and woman, friend and friend, and a person and himself or herself have not only revolutionized genetics and evolutionary biology, but have influenced disciplines from medicine and the social sciences to history, economics, and literary studies. But unlike other renowned scientists, Trivers has spent time behind bars, drove a getaway car for Huey P. Newton, and founded an armed group in Jamaica to protect gay men from mob violence. Now, Trivers tell us in his inimitable voice about the life behind the revolutionary science. He comments with irreverent wit and penetrating insight on everything from American racism to the history of psychiatry, to who killed Peter Tosh, musical heir to Bob Marley. Sprinkled with anecdotes about such luminaries as Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, and with photographs throughout, this volume is sure to enlighten and entertain anyone with an interest in science, the human condition, or the nature of creative genius."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2015
Biosocial Research Publications, New Brunswick, NJ, 2015
Autobiography
xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781938972126, 1938972120
935560901
Preface : Studying life and living it
From Mathematics to Viet Nam war vet to unemployed
Bill Drury, the man who taught me how to think
Memories of Ernst Mayr
I become a lizard man in Jamaica
Tired for assault occasioning bodily harm
The death of Flo
Robbed at gunpoint in East Kingston
Glenroy Ramsey : Master lizard catcher
Jamaican murders most frequent and most foul
The murder of James "Be-be" Bent
Hanging with Huey
Under arest
Vignettes of famous evolutionary biologists, large and small
Ambivalence about Jamaica
Looking back and looking forward
Acknowledgements
About the author