So if gangsters become governments, does this mean that governments began as gangsters? - Matt Ridley

I don’t have to,” replies the philosopher. “I only have to outrun you.”)

The great success of ants and termites – between them they may comprise one-third of all the animal biomass of land animals – is undoubtedly down to their division of labour.

Females choose; their choosiness is inherited; they prefer exaggerated ornaments; exaggerated ornaments are a burden to males. That much is now uncontroversial. Thus far Darwin was right.