Wild Life · Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist by Trivers, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface: Studying Life and Living It Chapter 1: From Mathematics to Viet Nam War Vet to Unemployed

I Am a Viet Nam War Vet The Day of the Evaluation Did I Have Homosexual Tendencies? 4-F

Chapter 2: Bill Drury, the Man Who Taught Me How to Think

Counter-Cultural to the Core Talking to Birds in Their Language Jealous Pigeons My One Trip to the Arctic I Get to Know Some Locals Back to Bill Drury

Chapter 3: Memories of Ernst Mayr

First Meeting First Class The Key Reference He Was a Loving Man Ernst as a Moral Compass Ernst Appears to Me in a Dream “I Have to Die of Something”

Chapter 4: I Become a Lizard Man in Jamaica

The Highly Cryptic Anolis Valencienni I Become a Green Lizard Freak Lizards as Objects of Terror Whistling a Male Green Lizard into Sexual Paranoia Two Penises Female Choice or Male Coercion? Falling Into a Pit The Lizard in Me

Chapter 5: Tried for Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm

The Fight The Trial Jasper’s False Witness Jasper Attacks Little Man Me Say “That Bob Is a Shit”

Chapter 6: The Death of Flo

All-Male Langur Troops The Death of Flo Chimpanzee Deception Parental Discipline in Baboons Hunting With Hunting Dogs Pelican Cooperative Hunting in Senegal

Chapter 7: Robbed at Gunpoint in East Kingston

I Join an Armed Robbery in Progress “Where de Money Deh?” I Make Good My Escape The Rollington Town Police Station I Return With the Police A Socialist Robbery? The Village Club in the 1980s

Chapter 8: Glenroy Ramsey: Master Lizard Catcher

He Only Looked for Their Eyes Letting Ganja Open up Your Eyes Glenroy Attacks the Very Foundation of Science Self-Deception Nearly Takes Us Over a Cliff Glenroy Catches a Crocodile by Hand What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You?

Chapter 9: Jamaican Murders most Frequent and most Foul

The Link A Very Bitter Murder Police Murders The Green Bay Massacre “My Time Come!” The Night Peter Tosh Died The Man Who Took the Fall Whatever

Chapter 10: The Murder of James ‘Be-be’ Bent

“Be-be Is Dead!” Donald The Death Yard My Encounter With Gladys Before Be-be’s Murder Gladys’s Story “Tonight I am going to kill Be-be” How the Actual Murder Went Down The Fate of Gladys

Chapter 11: Hanging with Huey

The Trick of the Panthers First Meeting A Day with Huey My First Night Out With Huey An Armed Robbery Leads to Protecting Children on Their Way Home From School Guns and Black People Animal Imagery Dummying Up Huey’s Dark Side The Killing of Huey P. Newton

Chapter 12: Under Arrest

Arrest in New Mexico for Multiple Driving Offenses “Have these boys been drinking?” Riding on Susie’s hood Under Arrest by the Guardia Nacional in Panama City DUI in California Ten days Locked Up at Half Way Tree, Kingston Judge McIntosh The Pocket Bible The Day of My Release

Chapter 13: Vignettes of Famous Evolutionary Biologists, Large and Small

Richard Dawkins W. D. Hamilton Stephen Jay Gould George C. Williams

Chapter 14: Ambivalence About Jamaica

G Spends Seven Years in Prison for a Crime He Did Not Commit Jamaican Homophobia Jamaican Misogyny Surviving an Armed Home Invasion Robbery Jamaican Humor

Chapter 15: Looking Back and Looking Forward

The Way Forward Burial Plans

Acknowledgements About the Author