Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!