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“Almost everything in the body, from hair to hormones, is either made of proteins or made by them.”

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Matt Ridley livre Genome

Introduction (p. 9)
Genome (1999)

“I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge.”

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Foreward (p. 3)
Genome (1999)

“At its birth eugenics was not a politicised science; it was a science-ised political creed.”

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Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 21 “Eugenics” (p. 288)

“The genome is littered, one might almost say clogged, with the equivalent of computer viruses, selfish, parasitic stretches of letters which exist for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated. We are full of digital chain letters and warnings about marmalade.”

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Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 8 “Self-Interest” (p. 127)

“Sexual relations are driven not by what is good, in evolutionary terms, for men or for women, but for their chromosomes. The ability to seduce a woman was good for Y chromosomes in the past; the ability to resist seduction by a man was good for X chromosomes in the past.”

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Source: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 115)