Biology Quote by Iain McGilchrist

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“The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.”

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“Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to see the whole. These gifts of the left hemisphere have helped us achieve nothing less than civilisation itself, with all that that means. Even if we could abandon them, which of course we can't, we would…

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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body,…

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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

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“When Lear cries, ‘Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?’, we could reply, on one level, yes – a defect in the right prefrontal cortex.475 But that just illuminates the fact that cruelty does not exist in ‘nature’: only humans with their left prefrontal cortex have the capacity for deliberate malice. But then only humans, with…

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“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate environment, with its insistent impressions, feelings and demands, abstracted from the body, no longer dealing with what is concrete, specific, individual, unrepeatable, and constantly changing, but with a disembodied representation of the world, abstracted, central, not…

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