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bc56f55
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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.
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love
genes
tobias-eaton
fourtris
tris-prior
belief
wholeness
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Veronica Roth |
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22ebedb
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I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
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kids
dreams-calvin-and-hobbes
calvin
calvin-and-hobbes
hobbes
comic
genes
comics
genetics
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Bill Watterson |
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83cd154
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The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortext from genes.
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frontal-cortex
genes
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Robert M. Sapolsky |
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5a695fc
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Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.
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free-will
genes
stress
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Matt Ridley |
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5f3ae05
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TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.
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cells
genome
genes
genetics
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Matt Ridley |
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9d3e162
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The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.
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marriage
egg
sperm
giving-birth
millions
genes
pregnant
mother
father
creation
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A.J. Jacobs |
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3b36de0
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The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortex from genes.
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nature-vs-nurture
brain
genes
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Robert M. Sapolsky |