Keith Henson

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.