How Does Trivers Use Social Theories

There has been many scientists to discover different things in the world. Robert Trivers is one who studies social theories in all organisms. Social Theories are framework of empirical evidence used to interpret social phenomena. He also was an evolutionary biologist. As you can see, he is a scientist of many areas. Trivers was born February 19, 1943, which makes him seventy-two years old. You could say he has been doing this a while. He has wrote books and won some awards. One of the books he published was about reviewing all cases of internal genetic conflict in all species. He publishes that book with Austin Burt in 2006. An award that he won in 2007 is the Cafoord prize. Trivers is currently working today. In the 70’s, Trivers wrote some papers that changed evolutionary biology. He has taught himself throughout his life. When he was thirteen, he taught himself everything in calculus. Trivers was also bullied when he was
younger. He wanted to put a stop to the bullying, so he started doing push-ups and reading, “How to Box,” by Joe Louis. “Trivers would go on to join the boxing team at Phillips Academy, Andover. He would also go on to drop math his freshman year at Harvard, decide to become a lawyer, suffer a nervous breakdown that kept him from getting in to any law schools, enroll in Harvard's doctoral program in biology without having taken a single biology class as an undergraduate, and-while still a grad student-write the first in a series of papers that would revolutionize the field of evolutionary biology” (Boston 1). Trivers basically changed the field of evolutionary biology for the better. Trivers was also an anthropologist.
The project he is currently working on today is documenting interesting relationships between the degrees of bodily symmetry in humans. “This work began in 1996 on rural Jamaican children and is one of the longest-running longitudinal studies of these variables in humans” (Trivers 1). Trivers states in an article that Jamaican people’s knees are straighter, so that is why they run faster. If a boy or girl has symmetrical knees at the age of eight, then they will be better sprinters when they are adults. The more symmetrical the knees were when they were eight, the better the sprinters are at twenty-two. Trivers and his fellow workers examined the same eight year olds fourteen years later when the children were adults at twenty-two years of age. They did this to check to see if the twenty-two years olds still had symmetrical knees as they did when they were eight years old. Jamaica has many gold medalists from the Olympics. Usain Bolt is a well-known runner from Jamaica, being a five time gold
medalist.
Trivers was suspended from Rutgers temporarily with pay because he told his students that he knew absolutely nothing about the Human Aggression class he was supposed to teach. A professor who had already taught the course before took his place. ‘“You would think the university would show a little respect for my teaching abilities on subjects that I know about and not force me to teach a course on a subject that I do not at all master,” Trivers told the campus newspaper’ (True Jersey 1). Some would say Trivers’ work is monumental. Some being Steven Pinker. ‘“Trivers is one of the most important thinkers in the history of the biological and social sciences,” Pinker says” (Nature 1). You could say that Pinker admired Trivers. Trivers is a brilliant man, but has his faults just like everyone else.