Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.