How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Az, hogy ez a könyv kifejezetten egy faj helyzetével foglalkozik - az emberi fajéval -, semmit nem jelent e faj fontosságát tekintve. Persze az ember valóban különleges. A két füle között a bolygó legbonyolultabb biológiai gépezetét hordozza. A komlexitás azonban nem minden, és nem az evolúció célja. Ezen a bolygón minden faj egyedülálló. A páratlanság itt túlkínálatban lévő árucikk.

...nature has never found human incomprehension a reason for changing her methods.

If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended from viruses.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.