36 Quotes by Keith Henson

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

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

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

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.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

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

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.