People would rather believe than know.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

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.

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