In the below lecture, Matt Ridely enlightens us on why it would not have mattered if adolescent "Albert Einstein had been run over by a tram," why sex is great despite being "a costly and inconvenient business" compared to borrowing genes simply by eating each other like bdeleoid rotifers, who are in good shape and high spirits even though "they have not had sex for 80 million years", how "the conversation between a gastroenterologist and a guided missile designer gave us the pill camera," how rampant capitalism makes people a lot less selfish, and a number of other rather surprising and not so current insights.
Enjoy.
