How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.
Matt RidleyConsidering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
Matt RidleyEcology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.
Matt RidleyThe genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
Matt RidleyOcean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.
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