I’m wary of most attempts to attribute human behavior to evolutionary science, mostly because the relationships are correlative and not actually substantiated in observable evidence. For instance, there’s been a pop culture obsession with male promiscuity being a product of males’ need to propagate the species by “spreading their seed”. I’m hesitant to excuse the kind of male infidelity that seems epidemic lately in the news because of some Cro Magnon subconscious desire to breed a lot. This is the same wariness that I approach a recent article by Thomas Rogers in Salon, an interview with evolutionary theorist Robert Trivers, who recently published his new book The Folly of Fools, on the nature of self-deception, and the importance of it in our evolution. Read more about Human Self-Deception and Evolution: A Tenuous Link (Or Not One At All)