I want to do for every aspect of the human world a little bit of what Charles Darwin did for biology, and get you to see past the illusion of design,… - Matt Ridley

Friedrich Hayek advanced the view that the common law contributed to greater economic welfare because it was less interventionist, less under the tutelage of the state, and was better able to respond to change than civil legal systems; indeed, it was for him a legal system that led, like the market, to a spontaneous order.

Humanity is, of course, morally free to make and remake itself infinitely, but we do not do so.

It is hardly surprising to find that the males best at seduction tend to be the best at other things as well; it does not prove that females are seeking good genes for their offspring.