"The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars - Cheating and Deception In The Living World"

Just finished reading "The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars - Cheating and Deception In The Living World" by Lixing Sun, published by the Princeton University Press.
Sun, who is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University, has written an interesting book where the first half is brilliant, and the second half is mundane, "Republicans' bad.
Professor Sun does show how cheating in nature relies on two basic rules. One is lying, by which cheaters exploit honest messages in communication signals and use them to serve their own interests. The other is deceiving, by which cheaters exploit the biases and loopholes in the sensory systems of other creatures. Sun demonstrates that cheating serves as a potent catalyst in the evolutionary arms race between the cheating and the cheated, resulting in a biological world teeming with complexity and beauty.
Sun derails himself when he goes into the human realm of lying.
The first half of the book is Strongly Recommended.
Two Stars.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Lixing-...