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

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

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

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.