Cheats and Deceits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheats and Deceits write by Martin Stevens. This book was released on 2016-02-04. Cheats and Deceits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host's own clutch. Harmless butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous butterfly to avoid being eaten. The deep-sea angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure in front of its mouth to draw the attention of potential prey, while some male fish alter their appearance to look like females in order to sneak past rivals in mating. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays. In this book, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of such adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved, and become increasingly perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite. He explores the work of naturalists and biologists from Alfred Russel Wallace to current research, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviours and colourings on the animals it is meant to fool, as opposed to our human perceptions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.
Cheats and Deceits
Cheats and Deceits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheats and Deceits write by Martin Stevens. This book was released on 2016. Cheats and Deceits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host's own clutch.
Cheating and Deception
Cheating and Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheating and Deception write by J. Bowyer Bell. This book was released on 2017-09-04. Cheating and Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization, official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a last resort in response to threat of extinction. As a distasteful tool, deception is rarely used to achieve national interests, unless in relation to the deployment of military force. As an area of study, it has by and large been ignored.Intrigued by attitudes toward cheating and deception, the authors decided to analyze its roots, structure, and process. They asked fundamental questions: are there categories of deception, general steps in the process of deception, and ways to evaluate its results across time and in different modes? The book that results is a typology of kinds of deception, beginning with military deception, but extending into other categories and stages.In his introduction to this new edition, Bell outlines how the book came to be written, describes the mixed emotions toward the subject displayed by govenmental and nongovernmental funding sources, and speculates about its critical and commercial reception. He discusses widespread new interest in the subject, the research that has been undertaken since this book was first published, and its limitations.This book provides a general overview of this complex subject, creating a framework for analysis of specific instances of cheating or deception. It will be of particular interest to political scientists, those interested in military affairs and strategy, and psychologists. The general reader will find the book written with a light touch, drawing examples of cheating and deception in the pursuit of love and money. The specialist reader will be intrigued by its broad-ranging examples drawn from policy and politics,
Cheating
Cheating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheating write by J. Barton Bowyer. This book was released on 1982. Cheating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Deception
Deception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deception write by Deception. This book was released on 1982. Deception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
