Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.

What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

...when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.