(1973) Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring
(1974) Parent-Offspring Conflict
(1976) Haploidploidy and the evolution of the social insect
(1991) Deceit and self-deception: The relationship between communication and consciousness
Książki
Trivers, R.L. (1985) Social Evolution. Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.
Trivers, R.L. (2002) Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert L. Trivers. (Evolution and Cognition Series) Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN0-19-513062-6
Burt, A. & Trivers, R.L. (2006) Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements. Belknap Press, Harvard. ISBN0-674-01713-7
Trivers R., Palestis B.G., Zaatari D. (2009) The Anatomy of a Fraud: Symmetry and Dance TPZ Publishers ISBN978-0-615-28756-0
Trivers R. (2015) Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist, Plympton, ISBN978-1938972126; wyd. polskie: Dzikie życie. Przygody biologa ewolucyjnego (2018), Copernicus Center Press, ISBN978-83-7886-361-8
↑Robert L.R.L.TriversRobert L.R.L., The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism, „The Quarterly Review of Biology”, 46 (1), 1971, s. 35–57, DOI:10.1086/406755, JSTOR:2822435.
↑Robert L.R.L.TriversRobert L.R.L., Parental investment and sexual selection, [w:] B.B.Campbell (red.), Sexual selection and the descent of man, Chicago: Aldine, 1871–1971, s. 136–179.