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I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The in...

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All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...

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...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows ...

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Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the groun...

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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

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Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or ...

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Jenna JamesonHow to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

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

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

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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

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

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Matt RidleyThe Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

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The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual...

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Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. I...

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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known...

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At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speak...

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Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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Thomas BrowneReligio Medici; And Other Writings

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about...

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Our highest contribution is making this world peaceful and happy. That comes when we can radiate pea...

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Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

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

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Bhramari Om Chanting or Humming Om chanting sends positive messages to the brain and the cells in ou...

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The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, c...

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Amit RayYoga The Science of Well-Being

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer,...

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