The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

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.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather buy some useless, shiny gee-gaw.

Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.