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.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

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.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.