Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.