Edward O.Wilson: The entire political climate of the world has changed.
Twenty years ago leftist activists in particular felt science was being used to justify the policies of colonialist governments. There was a moral outrage that has now passed almost completely. The fall of the Berlin Wall had something to do with that. And there’s also the mounting evidence from genetics and neurobiology.

Jill Neimark: Your theory has actually become mainstream.

Edward O.Wilson: It’s very respectable now. I was reading a complaint not long ago by an anthropologist who said, “If you want to get a grant, you’d better put some biology in your anthropology.” Twenty years ago if you wanted NOT to get a grant, you put it in.

Ritz-Carlton hotel, New York City, 1999