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patterns of
their own species. F [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]les of the genus Photuris have 'discovered'
that they can lure males of the genus Photinus if they imitate the
flashing code of a Photinus f[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]le. This they doand when a
Photinus
male is fooled by the lie into approachinghe is summarily eaten by
the Photuris f[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]le. Sirens and Lorelei spring to mind as analogies
but Cornishmen will prefer to think of the wreckers of the old days
who used lanterns to lure ships on to the rocksand then plundered
the cargoes that spilled out of the wrecks.
Whenever a system of communication evolvesthere is always the
danger that some will exploit the system for their own ends. Brought
up as we have been on the 'good of the species' view of evolutionwe
naturally think first of liars and deceivers as belonging to different
species: predatorspreyparasitesand so on. Howeverwe must
expect lies and deceitand selfish exploitation of communication to
arise whenever the interests of the genes of different individuals
diverge. This will include individuals of the same species. As we
shall seewe must even expect that children will deceive their
parentsthat husbands will cheat on wivesand that brother will lie to
brother.
Even the belief that animyilai:
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