Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.