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We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.