Wild Life by Robert Trivers

Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist

A candid memoir tracing an evolutionary biologist’s path from formative breakthroughs in theories of parental investment, reciprocal altruism, and self-deception to gritty fieldwork in the Caribbean, brushes with radical politics, and tumultuous personal episodes. Blending science and storytelling, it delivers sharp portraits of academic life, the pleasures and dangers of field research, and an unflinching look at mental illness, ego, and the role of deception in nature and in oneself.

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