#heredity

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#about #each #heredity #other #parents

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#conditioned #environment #freedom #heredity #man

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#environment #heredity #life #make #out

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#clinical #diagnosis #disease #experience #heredity

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs. The result of this interbreeding closely resembles Mendel’s laws concerning heredity: once it disappears in the phenotype, the primitive element survives in the form of a separated, latent heredity that is capable of cropping up in sporadic apparitions, even though it is always endowed with a character of heterogeneity in regard to the superior type. ↗

— Julius Evola

#extinction #heredity #nature

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#due #easier #environment #failure #far