Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

My laptop has freed me to travel.

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.