Robert Trivers Books in Order
Robert Trivers has written 8 books, published between 1985 and 2015. The first book is Social Evolution (1985) and the newest is Wild Life (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1985–2015
- Pages on record
- 1,666 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 28–42 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,666 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist. The catalogue records 8 books published between 1985 and 2015, filed under behavioural evolution, social evolution in animals, genomic imprinting, deception and self-deception. Social Evolution (1985) opens the list, followed by Genomic Imprinting and Kinship (2001) and Natural Selection and Social Theory (2002). The Anatomy of a Fraud (2009), Deceit and Self-Deception (2011), The Folly of Fools (2011) and Wild Life (2015) close the run. One grouping sits under the name: Robert Trivers Non-Fiction.
How many Robert Trivers books are there?
Robert Trivers has 8 books, released between 1985 and 2015.
Robert Trivers Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Robert Trivers books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119854621/4
- 220012181/4
- 320023451/4
- 42002–1/4
- 52009–1/4
- 620114161/4
- 72011–1/4
- 820152251/4
Robert Trivers books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Robert Trivers Non-Fiction
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Evolution and Cognition in order
1 bookDo you have to read Robert Trivers books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 8 Robert Trivers books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Robert Trivers
Start with Social Evolution (1985), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Robert Trivers book?
Wild Life (2015) is the newest Robert Trivers book released so far.
Is there a new Robert Trivers book coming?
No next Robert Trivers book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Robert Trivers at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Robert Trivers title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Robert Trivers books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,666 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 345 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Robert Trivers books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2000s.
What the Robert Trivers books are about
6 of the 8 Robert Trivers books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: behavior evolution is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Behavior evolution 4 of 6 books
- Deception 2 of 6 books
- Evolution 2 of 6 books
- Psychological aspects 2 of 6 books
- Self-deception 2 of 6 books
- Social aspects 2 of 6 books
- Social behavior in animals 2 of 6 books
- Social evolution 2 of 6 books
- Social evolution in animals 2 of 6 books