Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.
Few debates in the history of science have been conducted with such stupidity as the one about intelligence.
Fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact – an inconvenient truth if there ever was one – is obscu...
Far from being choosy, female primates seemed to be initiators of much promiscuity. Hrdy began to suggest that there was something wrong with the theory rather than the females.
China today has the economy of a twenty-first-century economic superpower with a political regime little changed since the 1950s. Is this slow evolution in political institutions down to the concentra...
But if there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make, one blind spot, it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.
As a result, whereas other primates have guts weighing four times their brains, the human brain weighs more than the human intestine. Cooking enabled hominids to trade gut size for brain size. Erectus
As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.
An extraordinarily nimble synthesist, Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual dif...
All Britons are descended from the same set of people a mere thirty generations ago.
A própria palavra sedução implica mentira e manipulação.
There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.
The Pentagon actually donates military equipment to the police, including tanks.
In a sorry world there is no safety to be found in standing still.
Evolutionary biologist Ryan Gregory put it, anyone who thinks he or she can assign a function to every letter in the human genome should be asked why an onion needs a genome that is about five times l...
With the first steam engines, the barrier between heat and work was breached, so that coal’s energy could now amplify the work of people.
When I go into the local superstore, I never see people driven to misery by the impossibility of choice. I see people choosing.
What is miraculous is that in modern society you can trust and be trusted by a shopkeeper you do not know.
This means - and religious people might find this a useful argument - that there was only one creation, one single event when life was born. Of course, that life might have been born on a different pl...
There was never a better illustration of the validity of the Enlightenment dream – that order can emerge where nobody is in charge. The genome, now sequenced, stands as emphatic evidence that there ca...