This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.