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There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.Toba Beta
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Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothing about genetics and care even less. People love their children not because they want to spread their genes (consciously or unconsciously) but because they can’t help it. That love makes them try to keep their children warm, fed, and safe. What is selfish is not the real motives of the person but the metaphorical motives of the genes that built the person. Genes “try” to spread themselves by wiring animals’ brains so the animals love their kin and try to keep warm, fed, and safe.Steven Pinker
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We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach–not her heart–that fell for her man.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach–not her heart–that has left her man for another.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Suddenly I realized that a cell's life is controlled by the physical and energetic environment and not by its genes. Genes are simply molecular blueprints used in the construction of cells, tissues, and organs. The environment serves as a "contractor" who reads and engages those genetic blueprints and is ultimately responsible for the character of a cell's life. It is a single cell's "awareness" of the environment, not its genes, that sets into motion the mechanisms of life. .Bruce H. Lipton
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The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was found only to be 80% mammalian, and had genes found previously only in reptilian, bird, amphibian, and fish DNA.B.C. Chase
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Now the leatherback turtle overcame the heat issue via a simple, but evolutionarily impossible solution; it is the only reptile that possesses fatty insulation known as brown adipose tissue, and the only reptile that regulates a high body temperature. This brown adipose tissue is the expression of the UCP1 gene, and, aside from the leatherbacks, is found only in mammals, amphibians, and fishes. Not one other reptile has UCP1.B.C. Chase
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.Jacques Monod