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I once got a Facebook friend request from Trivers out of the blue. I was gobsmacked. Why? I never met him or had any correspondence. I quickly accepted the invitation by arguably the 3rd most important theorist in evolutionary psychology, after Darwin and Hamilton.

You described well the roller coaster ride of being his graduate student. I would have liked to have met him in person, but only if he had been in a pleasant mood...