By 1500 there were 1,700 printing presses distributed in…

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

— Nicholas Wade

“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law and in…

— Nicholas Wade

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade

“The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled into the…

— Nicholas Wade

“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed the rule…

— Nicholas Wade

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

— Nicholas Wade

“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included dance, music…

— Nicholas Wade

“Another possibility is that the sweat glands were the driving force behind the rise of EDAR-V370A. East Asians are usually assumed to have evolved…

— Nicholas Wade

“When the glaciers retreated, starting around 20,000 years ago, both Europe and East Asia were repopulated by former northerners who had survived the Last…

— Nicholas Wade

“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.”

— Nicholas Wade

“Several primate species have communication systems of considerable sophistication. Gelada baboons have 22 different kinds of call, and gorillas have been recorded using some…

— Nicholas Wade

“One of the strangest features of human anatomy, when people are compared with the other 200 monkey and ape species in the primate family,…

— Nicholas Wade

“it is easy to recognize an evolutionary process at work that has molded the human form for better survival in an arctic environment. Populations…

— Nicholas Wade

“Americans may already have begun adapting genetically to the American environment in the several generations since their ancestors arrived in the United States. The…

— Nicholas Wade

“others are still in the throes of the process. The Meso-Industrial Age, as it might be called, is the period during which the rest…

— Nicholas Wade