 Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. |
| Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. |
| I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. |
| People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. |
| The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. |
| 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 your genes. |
| Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. |
| Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now. |
| Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. |
| Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives. |
