Matt Ridley Quotes
...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, ...
Show MoreThe gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetiti...
Show MoreStress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human b...
Show MoreAt some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no othe...
Show MoreThe Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plat...
Show MoreThere is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms...
Show MoreThe Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plat...
Show MoreFuturology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.
A four-letter alphabet called DNA.
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuas...
Show MoreHow much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...
Show MoreTP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves ...
Show MoreDare to be an optimist.
In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same re...
Show MoreIn a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...
Show MoreImagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter c...
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