Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences. - Edward O. Wilson

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception "genetic epistemology," in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.

We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.