One of the world’s most influential evolutionary theorists Robert Trivers asks: why do we lie to ourselves?
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Robert Trivers
Robert L. Trivers is an Americanevolutionary biologist and sociobiologist and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers is most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratiodetermination, and parent-offspring conflict. Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception and intragenomic conflict.