The mosquito is an automaton. It can afford to be nothing else. - Edward O. Wilson

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

The pattern of human population growth in the 20th century was more bacterial than primate. When Homo sapiens passed the six billion mark we had already exceeded by perhaps as much as 100 times the biomass of any large animal species that had ever existed on the land. We and the rest of life cannot afford another 100 years like that.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another.