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

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.