Terry Burnham

“the blue-headed wrasse is a fish that lives on coral reefs. All wrasses begin life as females and continue to pump out eggs as they age and grow larger. Every reef section has one extremely large, territorial male that fertilizes up to forty batches of eggs a day. When the male dies, the largest female spontaneously changes sex and starts producing sperm.”
― Terry Burnham, Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

“We can begin by trying to take our goals less seriously. We shouldn’t buy things in the hope that they will make us happier. At the time of purchase, we trade off the joys of a faster computer or a bigger house with the costs of payment. The joy will fade — more quickly than we are built to anticipate — but the bills will remain.”
― Terry Burnham, Mean Genes: From Sex To Money To Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts