#genetic

The tallest adults are the ones who had the most childhood and adolescent growth before puberty started; puberty typically tacks on a standard nine inches, and then the game's over. "The children who are going to be the biggest adults are those who are tall by age one or two, and have a relatively late puberty," says Rosenfeld. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#growth-spurt #height #tall #age

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#couple #freaks #general #genetic #hair

Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#genetics #design

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it. ↗

— David Brooks

#information #knowledge #river #education

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. ↗

— James Lovelock

#always #any #anyway #engineering #genetic

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#am #another #answer #disease #ethnic

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#gun #lifestyle #load #pulls #trigger

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#genetic #just #kids #out #overweight

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#consequences #environmental #examined #genetically #hadn