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Robert Trivers
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American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist
Robert Trivers is an influential evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist who appears in 53 mentions across 29 documents, primarily in emails between Jeffrey Epstein and other scientists discussing academic topics, manuscript reviews, and travel coordination.
Trivers appears primarily as an active correspondent in emails sent directly to or from Jeffrey Epstein, discussing academic matters including manuscript reviews, evolutionary biology topics, and coordinating travel. He is also referenced in forwarded academic documents and book manuscripts as a renowned evolutionary theorist. The emails span from 2017-2018 and show substantive intellectual exchanges, with Trivers sending high-importance messages about research topics, manuscript feedback, and appearing on group email threads with other academics like Gordon Getty, Alan Rogers, and David Haig discussing evolutionary biology concepts.
Key Highlights
- •Described in documents as "one of the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today" for his work on reciprocal altruism and parental investment theory
- •Sent multiple high-importance emails directly to Epstein discussing manuscripts, research questions, and travel logistics (landing notifications, journey updates)
- •Appeared on academic email threads with other scientists including David Haig (Harvard), discussing peer review of evolutionary biology manuscripts
- •His seminal 1971 paper on reciprocal altruism and 1972 work on parental investment are cited in academic documents found in Epstein's files
- •Participated in what appears to be an informal scientific discussion group that included Jeffrey Epstein, Gordon Getty, and other academics
- •Email exchanges show coordination around travel and research discussions, with Trivers asking Epstein questions about evolutionary topics
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Document Mentions (20 of 29)
Free Growth and Other Surprises.pdf
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010912 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011169
May 10, 2016Source: House Oversight Committee
AND OTHER SURPRISES Draft Gordon Getty HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010912 --- PAGE BREAK --- FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR How Come This Book? A few months ago, Robert Trivers was kind enough to send me his new book. The title is “Wild Life”. Perfect two ways. Bob is a world authority on wildlife, to wit evolutionary biolog
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010913 →marginalism preferred to do without explanations for tastes. Above all comes my bias for the great thinkers in those fields. We saw that as to Bob Trivers. Although | often cite them to disagree with them, | see all as giants from whose shoulders | slip in trying to climb. I don’t kick sand on 97-pound
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0), 718-723; Sigmund, K., Hauert, C., & Nowak, M. (2001). Reward and punishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 989), 10757- 10762; Trivers, R.L. (1971). The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology, 46, 35-57. Quotes Watts, D. P., Muller, M., Amsler, S. J., Mbabazi
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012801 →so. These ideas started with Charles Darwin. One hundred years later, they were developed in exquisite detail by the American evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers. Combined, they provide an explanation for why, in most species including our own, males compete with each other for access to females — the most val
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Subject: Robert Trivers 3/13/2017 1:36:48 PM Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] US idiocy Importance: High re your comment on predicting Trump, there is HL Mencken's fa
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033314
2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Robert Trivers 6/28/2018 12:27:50 AM Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High i think we have divergent views on Trump and trade for obvious reasons
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033323 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033325
Oct 17, 2018Source: House Oversight Committee
Does Trump Fit the Evolutionary Role of Narcissistic Sociopath? Nathan H. Lents and Robert Trivers There is no shortage of published psychological profiles of Donald J. Trump that attempt to diagnose him, from a distance, as either a psychopath or
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033323 →arcissistic Sociopath? Nathan H. Lents and Robert Trivers There is no shortage of published psychological p
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Subject: J [[email protected]] 12/22/2018 12:13:56 AM Robert Trivers Re: i never receveide anything asking for support? what are your referring to On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 7:03 PM Robert Trivers < > wrote: Apologies for
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033400 →[email protected]] 12/22/2018 12:13:56 AM Robert Trivers Re: i never receveide anything asking for support
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033425
2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Robert Trivers 12/22/2018 12:03:25 AM Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High Apologies for requesting support in what was originally intended as a
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Robert Trivers FS Sent: 12/22/2018 8:21:20 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Missing message Importance: — High no evidence you got the lat
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021247 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021398
Source: House Oversight Committee
of parental investment. Ronald Fisher and Robert Trivers (1972) defined it as “any investment by the paren
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021280 →ional to the percentage of their genes that others carry. This insight was further developed by the concept of parental investment. Ronald Fisher and Robert Trivers (1972) defined it as “any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases the offspring’s chance of surviving...at the cost of the
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025139
2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Robert Trivers xy Sent: 6/24/2018 6:11:37 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High Jeffrey finally landed very unpleasant journey you ha
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Robert Trivers [a Sent: 6/25/2018 2:19:44 AM To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Attachments: EPSTEIN.docx Importance: — High perhaps i misunders
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Robert Trivers _ a | Sent: 4/14/2018 5:06:12 PM To: Alan Rogers |i « Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] cc: Gordon Getty i Oliver Goodenough | | Tim Kane EE,
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026755 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026758
ancer, targeting the topology of minority mutations that drive tumor growth and creating a database to predict and minimize resistance to HIV drugs. Robert Trivers is an evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, who some consider to be one of the most influential evolutionary theorists alive today. Robert is on
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026756 →ict and minimize resistance to HIV drugs. Robert Trivers is an evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist,
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
m to open the attachment... Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2017, at 20:24, jeffrey E. < [email protected]> wrote: -- Forwarded message ----- From: Robert Trivers < Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:45 PM Subject: To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@,gmail.com> Dear Jeffrey Two questions. 1— do you believe the stock mar
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Robert Trivers 3/19/2018 3:19:49 AM Haig, David I Attachments: TRIVERS on PETER.docx Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High dear men i am writing you both because i am attaching a still not-quite-comple
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029154 →From: Sent: To: Robert Trivers 3/19/2018 3:19:49 AM Haig, David I Attachments: TRIVERS on PETER.docx Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High dear men i am writing
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Subject: Haig, David 3/19/2018 9:10:54 AM Robert Trivers Re: ; Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Importance: High Hi Bob (and hello Jeffrey), I would be happy at the moment not to be on another mailin
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Robert Trivers 1/4/2018 7:36:39 PM Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029437 →From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Robert Trivers 1/4/2018 7:36:39 PM Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] you and Chapman Dear Daniele 1.04.18. doc Importance: High attached a message i just sent
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
rom: Sent: To: Subject: Importance: My God Robert Trivers 4/11/2018 2:18:04 AM Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029498 →From: Sent: To: Subject: Importance: My God Robert Trivers 4/11/2018 2:18:04 AM Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029565
2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
From: Sent: To: Subject: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] 1/4/2018 7:45:38 PM Robert Trivers Re: you and Chapman Nice On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:36 PM Robert Trivers < wrote: attached a message i just sent to President Struppa of Chapman—i am c
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029925 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029931
Dec 2, 2011Source: House Oversight Committee
gestion clearly influence behavior, and when we expect to receive medicine our bodies often begin to prepare for it. (As the evo- lutionary biologist Robert Trivers recently pointed out, in "The Folly of Fools," his book about the historical necessity of de- ceit, what the brain expects to happen in the near futu
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029930 →of Fools," his book about the historical necessity of de- ceit, what the brain expects to happen in the near future affects its physiological state. Trivers's theory would explain a fact that has often baffled scientists: the pla- cebo effect doesn't appear to work with Alzheimer's patients. Trivers sugge
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