Curious the article didn't mention his fondness for the anthropic principle.

Unrelated, but possibly interesting to those who read this thread: This month's Discover magazine has an article about fossil evidence revealing that the human brain is actually smaller than it was 20,000 years ago by about the volume of a tennis ball. One theory [[idiocracy?) is that in today's organized societies, individuals don't need to be as sharp-witted as our more isolated ancestors. Good read.