Natural selection Quote by Richard Dawkins

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort,…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

— John Maynard Smith

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

The gene as the basis of life.

— Hermann Joseph Muller

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to…

— E. O. Wilson

“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

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

“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

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

— Walter Gilbert