Anthropology consists of studying the differences between peoples. But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and … - Matt Ridley

Sexual selection, as we have seen, is very different from natural selection in its effects, for it does not solve survival problems, it makes them worse.

I know of no other way that human nature can have developed except by evolution, and there is now overwhelming evidence that there is no other way for evolution to work except by competitive reproduction. Those strains that reproduce persist; those that do not reproduce die out.

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.