Dealing with deception in biology

Life gets interesting when it gets complicated — and nothing complicates life so much as society. Flowing through the network of social conventions, institutions, obligations, and expectations that make civilization possible are a complex suite of individual motivations, sometimes common and sometimes conflicting, upon which tenuous alliances are formed and broken. We humans are fascinated by this complexity and drawn naturally to it. Here gossip seeps through the bedrock of friendship, here the politics draw us in against our better judgement, here theatre becomes gripping as intrigues multiply, here Walter Scott’s tangled web demands every iota of our cognitive

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