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...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, ...

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The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetiti...

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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human b...

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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no othe...

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The Rational Optimist

The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plat...

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms...

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

The Sun King had dinner each night alone. He chose from forty dishes, served on gold and silver plat...

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuas...

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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...

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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves ...

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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same re...

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In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: t...

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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter c...

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Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

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Matt Ridley

Journalist

Born: 1958-02-07

Died: N/A

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), usually known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books. He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.More