1. http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/10/19/10–remarkable-ancient-indian-sages-familiar-with-advanced-technology-science-long-before-modern-era/; https://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/31.html; http://mcknowledge.info/about-vedas/what-is-vedic-science/.
2. 这些数据及比例可参考：Conrad Hackett and David McClendon, ‘Christians Remain World’s Largest Religious Group, but They Are Declining in Europe’, Pew Research Center, 5 April 2017, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/, accessed 13 November 2017.
3. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (New York: Pantheon, 2012); Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (New York: Penguin Press, 2013).
4. Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, ‘Wild Justice – Honor and Fairness among Beasts at Play’, American Journal of Play 1:4 (2009), 451–75.
5. Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape (London: Granta, 2005), ch.5.
6. Frans de Waal, Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 157.
7. 这个故事后来被拍成纪录片，片名为《黑猩猩》（Chimpanzee），由迪士尼自然（Disneynature）于2010年推出。
8. M.E.J.Richardson, Hammurabi’s Laws (London, New York: T&T Clark International, 2000), 29–31.
9. Loren R.Fisher, The Eloquent Peasant, 2nd edn (Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015).
10. 有些拉比允许为了拯救非犹太人而亵渎安息日，理由也是出自典型的“塔木德”思考方式。他们认为，如果犹太人不拯救非犹太人，就会激怒他们，导致他们攻击并杀害犹太人。所以通过拯救非犹太人，可能就是间接拯救了一个犹太人。但这个论点仍然强调非犹太人和犹太人的生命并不等值。
11. Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World (London: Macmillan, 2017).
12. Charles Allen, Ashoka: The Search for India’s Lost Emperor (London: Little,Brown, 2012), 412–13.
13. Clyde Pharr et al.(eds.), The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), 440, 467–71.
14. Ibid., esp.472-3.
15. Sofie Remijsen, The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2015), 45–51.
16. Ruth Schuster, ‘Why Do Jews Win So Many Nobels?’, Haaretz, 9 October 2013, https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.551520, accessed 13 November 2017.
