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Robert Trivers

1943 - Today

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Robert Ludlow "Bob" Trivers (; born February 19, 1943) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative sex ratio determination (1973), and parent–offspring conflict (1974). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Trivers has received more than 295,668 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert Trivers is the 802nd most popular biologist (down from 723rd in 2019), the 7,568th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,911th in 2019) and the 108th most popular American Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Trivers ranks 802 out of 1,097. Before him are Mary Elizabeth Barber, Jacques Miller, William Townsend Aiton, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, and Marie-Anne Libert. After him are José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Alec Jeffreys, Thomas Thomson, Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Johann Christoph Wendland, and Yang Zhongjian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Robert Trivers ranks 509. Before him are Lajos Szűcs, Dave Bing, Milan Damjanović, Fabrizio Poletti, David Alexandre Winter, and Marika Kilius. After him are Superstar Billy Graham, Juan Masnik, Albert Lee, Peter Struck, Bobby Keys, and Giuseppe Gentile.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Trivers ranks 7,568 out of 20,380. Before him are Tommy Johnson (1896), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Greg Louganis (1960), Edmund Szoka (1927), Jello Biafra (1958), and Bill Miller (1912). After him are Margaret Dumont (1882), Superstar Billy Graham (1943), Glenn Branca (1948), Jack Colvin (1934), George Irving (1874), and Jennifer Hudson (1981).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Trivers ranks 108. Before him are Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), and Alfred Romer (1894). After him are Herbert Copeland (1902), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Charles Wallace Richmond (1868), Alice Catherine Evans (1881), John Jacob Abel (1857), and Judah Folkman (1933).

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