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The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be...

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Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change...

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Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the...

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Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with kn...

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Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

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Robert Trivers

Biologist

Born: 1943-02-19

Died: N/A

Robert L. Trivers (born 19 February 1943) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974).More