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Humans are masters of the art of deception 鈥 like it or not, it鈥檚 hard to disagree. But the art of SELF-deception is all around 鈥 the manifold ways which we subconsciously kid ourselves about our motivations and deepest desires. From little white lies to fake news, self-placebos to dodgy dossiers. In today鈥檚 episode, advertising guru and behavioural expert Rory Sutherland speaks to a legendary figure in evolutionary biology 鈥 the American geneticist Robert Trivers, who wrote the foreword to Richard Dawkins鈥 Selfish Gene. He鈥檚 also joined by evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman, and 鈥済uru of randomness鈥, the statistician and author of 鈥淏lack Swan鈥, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Produced by Steven Rajam for 91福利社 Wales
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