As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

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

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

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.

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

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

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