Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.