"While our species has no lack of dishonesty and self-deception, we are not as exceptional as we think. This eye-opening book by Lixing Sun expertly explains how the natural world is filled to the brim with misleading signals and subterfuge." --Frans de Waal, author of Different: Gender through the Eyes of a Primatologist "With clarity, authority, and humor, Lixing Sun's The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars presents the natural world as a source of insights for human interaction. Through superb scientific storytelling and compelling animal examples, Sun provides readers with a framework for detecting and decoding dishonesty in the human world. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars is an engaging, fascinating, and important contribution." --Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, coauthor of Wildhood and Zoobiquity "In this wide-ranging book, Lixing Sun argues that lying and deceiving can be found in all domains of life ranging from bacteria, fungi, and genes to more complex plants and animals. Buckle up for a thrilling journey into the wide world of cheating. Sun's book opened my eyes to ideas I had never before entertained.

" --Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado Boulder, coauthor of Wild Justice and A Dog's World "A refreshingly fun take on cheating and free riding in the natural world. From cuckoos and crabs to cheating bureaucrats, Sun paints a brightly colored world filled with innovative impostors, creative liars, and brilliant nervous-system hackers." --Athena Aktipis, author of The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer and host of the Zombified podcast.