The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.