Pop!Tech 9
Oct. 19-22, 2005

Seeing What’s There
Graham Flint
Bob Hanner

It’s Alive!
Norman Packard
Theo Jansen

Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken
Jesse Sullivan
Ze Frank

Explorer’s Club
Peter Diamandis
Marcia McNutt
Carolyn Porco

People, Place, and Planet
Mark Lynas

East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
Rebecca MacKinnon

Serious Games
Edward Castronova
Ivan Marovic
Steven Berlin Johnson
Davy Rothbart

The Participation Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte
Yochai Benkler
Ingo Gunther

Habitats
Suketu Mehta
Robert Neuwirth

Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Bunker Roy
Neil Gershenfeld

The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
Susan Blackmore

What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Robert Trivers

Summary
Bob Metcalfe

The Future of Africa
Panel Discussion

Robert Trivers' work has transformed our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior. His scientific work has concentrated on two areas, social theory based on natural selection (of which a theory of self-deception is one part) and the biology of selfish genetic elements (which leads to certain kinds of internal genetic conflicts). His early work - offering unifying theories on reciprocal altruism, parental investment, sexual selection, parent-offspring conflict, the sex ratio, and deceit and self-deception - has now been cited more than 7000 times in the scientific literature. His work on selfish genetic elements has appeared in several articles. Robert is also the author of Social Evolution, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers.

He was cited in a special Time issue as one of the 100 greatest thinkers and scientists of the 20th Century.

Bibliography:
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert L. Trivers (Evolution and Cognition Series)
Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements

http://anthro.rutgers.edu/faculty/trivers.shtml
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/trivers04/trivers04_index.html

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