Robert Trivers
The capacity of humans to deceive each other is well documented
by history and personal experience. Less well known, however, is
the capacity of most living things to deceive each other - species
deceiving other species, members of their own species and
themselves. We are, it seems, not that different from parasites,
insects and bacteria in this regard.
Dr. Robert Trivers talks about the evolutionary basis of
deception in this address from Pop!Tech 2005. The first half of
this talk focusses on the biological examples of deception in the
natural world, with explanations for the evolutionary advantages of
deception and self-deception.
Later in the talk, Dr. Trivers supplies easily recognizable
examples of common human self-deception. He then delves into an
overtly political criticism of human deception and self-deception,
with an emphasis on current events.
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