In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor -… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The Angelina Effect refers to the fact that a powerful, beautiful, well-respected and world-renowned woman unabashedly revealed private medical details about a… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
