It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.