People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates.