Genes Quotes
What we inherit, and how it shapes us.
These genes quotes mix scientific perspective on evolution and genetics with personal appreciation for good genes passed down from parents. Explore more in our Dad quotes.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
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Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
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Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
Brain Quotes
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.
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From debates about culture versus genetics to simple gratitude for good luck, this topic covers inheritance from more than one angle. See our Able quotes for related themes.
