Was anyone else surprised that de Waal disagrees with Pinker on the idea of a language module? Pinker is pretty much perceived as the authority in linguistics and I was a little surprised!

It seems to me de Waal contradicts himself with respect to emotions and morality. He argues that morality is exhibited by individuals who can be disinterested and impartial. Those words seem to convey a lack of emotion to me. Those words seem to convey rational thought. However, earlier in the chapt...

On p 5 de Waal mentions a study by Taylor that found that men who are married have a 90% chance of living past 65yrs old while unmarried men have only a 65% chance. I wonder what the stats are for women. Does anyone know?

Suzanne and Lois, thank you for sharing those stories from your lives. I am not reading this book right now and have only read those two last posts. I just wanted to thank the two of you for putting yourselves out there.

I love the laughing in the brick wall clip!

That is evil and just mean! I hated to laugh so hard!

I was looking for my last post in this thread and, not for the first time, realized that it's not the easiest thing to do. I may be overlooking a simple way to do this and hope that someone will set me straight if that is so. At this moment, I can only think of two ways of finding your (or anyone el...

That was great! It reminds me of a political forum I attended in my county. One of the politicians pointed out how global warming is not happening because the temperatures in our county have been rising! LOL I wasn't sure if I should laugh or cry. He has probably never left ou county so it is the gl...

Thanks for posting that, Mary! Gotta love it!

I will eat/drink at either of them on occasion. I might like D&D just a little bit more.