It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

Language changes very fast.

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.