Steve Stewart-Williams

"As far as we know, no woman in the history of the species has ever given birth and thought: “Wait a minute! How do I know that this baby is mine and not some other woman’s?” In contrast, if a baby com…"

"A Ku Klux Klan member would be mortified to learn that he was actually a Black man. Many people’s reaction to learning that they are actually animals, or actually apes, is the same."

"The amount of suffering and pain caused by the tyranny of human beings over other animals far exceeds that caused by sexism, racism, or any other existing form of discrimination, and for this reason, …"

"Most effects in psychology are relatively unimportant. That is, most variables, considered in isolation, have relatively little impact on behavior. This doesn't mean... that we should all abandon psyc…"

"Psychology has made a lot less progress than it could have because too many psychologists know too little about other animals."

"The claim that women have a stronger average parental urge than men is sometimes viewed as a sexist generalization. But it’s only sexist if we take a dim view of the trait in question: the parental ur…"

"Contrary to stubborn anthropological myth, people everywhere fall in love... the idea that romantic love is an invention of Western culture is itself an invention of Western culture."

"As a result of cumulative culture, we have ideas in our heads that are orders of magnitude smarter than we are."