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The liars of nature and the nature of liars : cheating and deception in the living world
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ISBN: 0691245738 9780691245737 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature 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 cheating in human society, identifying the kinds of cheating that spur innovation and cultural vitality and laying down a blueprint for combatting malicious cheating such as fake news and disinformation.

Evolution of infectious disease
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ISBN: 019987901X 1280524200 9786610524204 1423734696 0195345193 1602566038 9781423734697 9780195345193 9781280524202 9780195060584 019506058X 019506058X 0195111397 9780195111392 0197700918 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Ecology of predator-prey interactions
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ISBN: 1283121484 9786613121486 0199874549 9780199874545 0195171209 9780195171204 019988367X 0197700799 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Addressing the issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, this work will appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.

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