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In this book, Robert Trivers seeks to answer one of the most provocative and consequential questions to face humanity: why do we lie to ourselves?

Robert Trivers is a pioneering figure in the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of reciprocal altruism, parent-offspring conflicts, and asymmetry in sexual selection, which helped to establish the centrality of sociobiology, as well as some of his later work on deceit in signalling, sex antagonistic genes, and imprinting. Trivers introduces each paper, setting them in their contemporary context, and critically evaluating them in...

Robert Trivers to żywa legenda w świecie biologii i nauk społecznych, człowiek, którego magazyn „Time” uznał za jednego z największych naukowców i myślicieli dwudziestego wieku. Jego teorie dotyczące ewolucyjnych napięć występujących pomiędzy rodzicami a dziećmi, członkami rodzeństwa, przyjaciółmi, a także wewnątrz samego organizmu nie tylko zrewolucjonizowały genetykę i biologię ewolucyjną, ale i wpłynęły na wiele innych dyscyplin, od medycyny i nauk społecznych po historię, ekonomię i studia nad literaturą.
Trivers opowiada o swym niezwykłym, pełnym...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2012
Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive--but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?
In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers unflinchingly argues that self-deception evolved in the service of deceit--the better to...