The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

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by Robert Trivers


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  INDEX

  Abdullah, King

  Abuse

  Academia, academics

  ACC. See Anterior cingulate cortex

  Aeroflot Flight 593

  Afghanistan

  African Americans

  Aggression

  AIDS

  Air Florida Flight 90,

  Air France

  Air Transport Association

  Airline Pilots Association

  Al-Qaeda

  Altruism

  Alzheimer’s disease

  American Eagle Flight 4184

  American exceptionalism

  Amerindians

  Anger

  Anterior cingulated cortex (ACC)

  Anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC)

  Anthropology, cultural

  Anti-semitism

  Ants

  Apes

  aPFC. See Anterior pref
rontal cortex

  Arabs

  Argentina

  Armenian genocide

  Athletics

  Australia

  Automobile industry

  Aviation disasters

  Aeroflot Flight 593

  Air Florida Flight 90

  American Eagle Flight 4184

  causes of

  EgyptAir Flight 990

  FAA response to

  Gol Flight 1907

  ice and

  overconfidence and

  pilot error and

  September 11 and

  tombstone technology and

  Belgium

  Beneffectance

  Berlin Wall

  Betrayal

  Bible

  Bin Laden, Osama

  Biology

  camouflage and

  coevolutionary struggle and

  death and near-death acts and

  deception, consciousness of and

  deception and anger and

  false alarm calls and

  female mimicry and

  frequency dependence and

  game theory and

  intelligence and deception and

  parasite-host relationships and

  predator-prey relationships and

  randomness and

  religion and

  Birds

  Black Panthers

 

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