num_pages: 479
description: Pp. xviii 462; 200 black-and-white photos and line-drawings. Original color pictorial stiff wrappers sm 4to. Social Evolution offers a clear and up-to-date introduction to the growing field of sociobiology. The book emphasizes topics especially relevant to human behavior including kindship parent-offspring relations parental investment sexual selection mate choice cooperation and deceit and self-deception (from the rear cover blurb). Warmly inscribed by the author Bob Trivers to the late Mike Newcomer an expert on whale behavior on the title page.
language: English
title: Social Evolution
publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co