The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars : : Cheating and Deception in the Living World / / Lixing Sun.
A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the Nat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Liar, Liar, Everywhere
- Chapter 2 Hackers and Suckers in Communication
- Chapter 3 Nature’s Eavesdroppers, Impostors, and Con Artists
- Chapter 4 Infidelity and the Rise of Honesty
- Chapter 5 Catalyst for Innovation
- Chapter 6 Cheating in Humans
- Chapter 7 Liars Who Lie to Themselves
- Chapter 8 Living with Lies and Deceptions
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index