The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

There is no better high than discovery.