The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. - Matt Ridley

The process of choosing somebody to have sex with, which used to be known as falling in love, is mysterious, cerebral, and highly selective.

Fascism and communism were and are religions of the state.

The stuff of anthropology—the traditions, the myths, the crafts, the language, the rituals—is to me but the froth on the surface. Beneath lie giant themes of humanity that are the same everywhere and that are characteristically male and female. To a Martian an anthropologist studying the differences between races would seem like a farmer studying the differences between each of the wheat plants in his field. The Martian is much more interested in the typical wheat plant. It is the human universals, not the differences, that are truly intriguing.