Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.