If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

Hormones influencing the sensitivity of the person to environmental stimuli.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.