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
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