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?

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.

But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

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