Hal Whitehead Quotes & Sayings

Newborns can be up to 20 percent of their mother's mass in the smaller cetacean species. This is extreme. Few, if any, large terrestrial mammals give birth to young that are more than 15 percent of their own weight.26 The minimum size for a newborn marine mammal seems to be about 0.6 meters long and five kilograms. — Hal Whitehead

Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad. — Hal Whitehead

In the extreme, fads can arise, spread through, and then disappear from a community in a fraction of a human generation. — Hal Whitehead