Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.