If cheating is a product of evolution, why do we still value truth, writes Lixing Sun
Sun is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University. He is the author ofeceptive tricks in nonhuman primates can feel stunningly human. “The first time I saw an established leader lose face, the noise and passion of his reaction astonished me,” writes the celebrated primatologist Frans de Waal about chimpanzees in his 2019 book,.
This becomes obvious when we take the perspective of nonhuman primates such as the Tibetan macaque, a species my colleague and I have studied in East China since the 1980s. Tibetan macaques live in small, hierarchical societies, each made of two to five dozen members. Adept in social skills, they resort to both cooperation and deception , as they see fit, to gain an advantage over their peers.
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