Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. — Keith Henson Copy Share
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. — Keith Henson Copy Share
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. — Keith Henson Copy Share
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. — Keith Henson Copy Share
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children,… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per… — Keith Henson Copy Share
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind. — Keith Henson Copy Share
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. — Keith Henson Copy Share
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson Copy Share
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment… — Keith Henson Copy Share
