#genetic

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#descendants #destruction #diversity #folly #forgive

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#first #genetics #get #guy #made

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#basis #bird #genetic #inheritance #natural

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ↗

— William Glasser

#belonging #driven #five #fun #genetic

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#genetic #just #premature #thing #two

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

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#due #every #family #father #genetics

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#cells #dissect #extremely #genetic #interest