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“We’re clusters of chemical reactions that contemplate deep truths about the nature of reality.”

Steve Stewart-Williams

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 15

“Does female orgasm have an evolutionary function? Ironically, scientists have yet to come to a satisfying conclusion about this matter.”

Steve Stewart-Williams

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 58

“People who object to the by-product hypothesis [for female orgasm] are doing something strange: They're saying that it's hugely important to them that female orgasm turns out to be an adaptation, like vomiting, cobra venom, and the scorpion's stinger, rather than a "mere" cultural invention, like science, medicine, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

Steve Stewart-Williams

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 59