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...fact, thus tricking a new male into investing his time and resources in offspring?and genes?that are not his. In the long run, however, natural selection sharpens up both the ability to cheat and the ability to detect cheating. Trivers and Dawkins suggest that the need for deceit???and for its detection?may have been responsible for the rapid enlargement of the human brain during the Pleistocene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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