Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a Darwinian explanation.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.