Quote by Ed Yong Download Open image ““The Extended Phenotype,”” — Ed Yong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that it seeks… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“These days, there are few researchers,if any,who are really thinking about extracellular genetics.Sooner or later, nobody will be able to talk about the essence… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
“Epigenetics, Waddington wrote, concerns "the interaction of genes with their environment (...) that brings their phenotype into being.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I have great genetics. However, I put in the work, let's just add that in there too. — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
“She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.” — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“Drinking lots of alcohol makes the gut leakier, allowing microbes to more readily influence the brain. Could that help to explain why alcoholics often… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“No, the algae were making something that killed the corals via their own microbes. That something turned out to be dissolved organic carbon (DOC);… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Patterson died in 2014 but Mazmanian is now carrying on his friend's work. His long-term goal is to develop a bacterium that people can… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Mucus is made from giant molecules called mucins, each consisting of a central protein backbone with thousands of sugar molecules branching off it. These… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. A span of time that big is too mind-boggling to comprehend, so let’s collapse the planet’s entire… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Many of the plants that the spider mite targets can release hydrogen cyanide when their tissues are breached. This substance is extraordinarily inimical to… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“When microbiologists first started cataloguing the human microbiome in its entirety they hoped to discover a "core" microbiome: a group of species that everyone… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Most animals can't tap into these open-source adaptations deliberately. The flies didn't seek out Spiroplasma to solve their worm problem. Woodrats didn't go looking… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“The variations that exist between the body parts dwarf those that exist between people. Put simply, the bacteria on your forearm are more similar… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“It earns its keep. As it digests HMOs, B. infantis releases short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that feed an infant's gut cells - so while… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“When Hamiltonella's genome was sequenced, the real reason behind the bacterium's protective powers became apparent: about half of its DNA actually belonged to a… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
