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Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of comm...

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Jonah LehrerProust Was a Neuroscientist

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...

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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

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Lewis ThomasLate Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

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Lewis ThomasThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not th...

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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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Matt RidleyGenome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

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

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Matt RidleyGenome: 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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Matt RidleyGenome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and worki...

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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

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Theodosius DobzhanskyMankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes wer...

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Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.