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Robert Trivers is a pioneering figure in the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts, and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genes, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in the light of subsequent work and further developments. The result is a unique portrait of the intellectual development of sociobiology, with valuable insights for evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology. Salient Features Robert Trivers is thought of as one of the most significant contributors of worthwhile ideas in the entire field of sociobiology and behavioral ecology, and his book is an interesting commentary on an academic career. This book will appeal to students, but also to evolutionary biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists.