Between Quote by Nicholas A. Christakis

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have…

— Spencer Wells

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

— Ian Wilmut

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

— Lupita Nyong'o

“Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene…

— Haruki Murakami

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This…

— Bryan Sykes

“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because they establish…

— Nicholas Wade

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

— Steven Pinker

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take…

— Robert Wright

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson