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

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

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.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

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.