The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
A. A. GillThe interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnโt wishful thinking. Itโs the rule.
A. A. GillHe (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
A. A. GillI still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
A. A. GillWe like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
A. A. GillOnce upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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