The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.