The Folly of Fools
December 01, 2011 Thursday AT 3PM CT

 
 

Leading evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers draws on many years of research to examine the science of deceit. He claims that natural selection seems to favor self-deception, and that in order to deceive others we often have to deceive ourselves first.



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  • Robert Trivers, evolutionary biologist and socio-biologist, and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University
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