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"Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows."

"Again, we undervalue our non-human ancestors when we blame them for our violent proclivities. Very likely, they had inhibitions in place that we routinely circumvent. Killing an enemy with teeth and bare hands is emotionally far more demanding than pulling a trigger or pressing a button."

"Remember those macaques who would rather go hungry than profit from harming their fellows; might we have a more optimistic view of the human future if we were sure our ethics were ip to their standards?"

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"Imagine a moonlit darkness in which their adversaries lay senseless, strewn across the landscape in stupors of sleep."

"The primates are so rich in potential that even a small change in anatomy or physiology may provide an aperture to a universe never dreamt of in the rude sleeping pallets made each night in the low branches of the once-vast tropical forests."