I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.