Nobody doubts that genes can shape anatomy. The idea that they also shape behaviour takes a lot more swallowing. - Matt Ridley

As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.

Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes.

Anthropology consists of studying the differences between peoples. But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.