Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

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

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.