According to Edward O. Wilson, science and religion are irreconcilable.

In Europe, the church was the biggest owner of properties during the middle ages. No single noble or king was richer than the church.

With the growth of religions, they became cosmopolitan organizations with the same forms of functioning, hierarchy, and content anywhere.

Religions grew in complexity and changed their main functions with the changes from hunter-gatherer bands to tribes, chiefdoms and states.

One inconsistency in religions is the belief of an almighty god and at the same time, on an evil being who annoys the god as much as he can

Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that knowledge erodes

In 2018, the richest 1% of the world's population, about eighty million people, owned half the wealth of the planet.

We can detect multiple characteristics of modern societies when the first chiefdoms consolidated into states.

Agriculture began in various places of the world. It appeared first with the cultivation of wheat, rye, and barley in the Fertile Crescent.

With farming began the artificial selection of species, which Charles Darwin used as an introduction to natural selection

Orwell about nationalism: "There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind..."

"History makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology." Edward O. Wilson

"I've always maintained that in this business, you're only as good as the other fellow thinks you are." James Cagney.

Morality and social norms, including punishments, enhance the superb cooperation capacity of our species.

..most people, including many scholars, would like to keep human nature at least partially in the dark. It is the monster in the fever swamp

Failures of Reason: in the 1st decade of the 21st century, 75% of the U.S. population still believed in at least one paranormal phenomenon.

"It is so convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”

The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

The farming revolution began in the Middle East—in what was once the Fertile Crescent, near to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—and in China

The expansion of Homo sapiens across the planet took a long time after the first departure from Africa