There should be no moral objections to human cloning or the creation of embryos for life-saving stem cells.

The preservation of dying languages and cultures is pointless and reactionary. People want to join modernity

How can we explain both our disquiet about the new genetics and our enthusiasm biological explanations of human nature?

By applying Darwinian theory to human behaviour, evolutionary psychologists such as Steven Pinker have provided striking insights. But the new Darwinians reduce culture to biology and do not understand how language and self-awareness have made humans different from animals