Entirety Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image “Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entirety Gene Genes Genome Single
All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
“If genes strongly influence average levels of a trait, that trait is strongly inherited. If genes strongly influence the extent of variability around that… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What’s a heritability score? “What does a gene do?” is at least two questions. How does a gene influence average levels of a trait?… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church 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
Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There is another kind of variation that does not involve the genome at all, and is therefore not heritable. Yet it can produce what looks like evolution. Indeed, the results look so much like evolution that for all we know some of the best examples of evolution may be due to this nonheritable kind of variation. [It] has been observed,… — Lee Spetner Copy Share
No one has found a gene for IQ. "Heritability" means that identicial twins are more similar than fraternal twins, right? Fraternal twins more similar… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I can say with unwavering certitude that I have never started a pint of Ben 'n Jerry's ice cream that I didn't finish in… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am.… — Fairuza Balk Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety… — David Kim Copy Share Image
