We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.
There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.
Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.
Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level.
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.
So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just. ' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.
While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.