Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

I much prefer the modern world.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.