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**A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politicians** Nature 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 Nature of Liars__ explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity. Blending cutting-edge science with a wealth of illuminating examples—from microscopic organisms to highly intelligent birds and mammals—Lixing Sun shows how cheating in nature relies on two basic rules. One is lying, by which cheaters exploit honest messages in communication signals and use them to serve their own interests. The other is deceiving, by which cheaters exploit the biases and loopholes in the sensory systems of other creatures. Sun demonstrates that cheating serves as a potent catalyst in the evolutionary arms race between the cheating and the cheated, resulting in a biological world teeming with complexity and beauty. Brimming with insight and humor, __The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars__ also looks at the prevalence of cheat

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Author

Lixing Sun

Publisher

Princeton University Press 2023

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691256849

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem