Quotes by : Matt Ridley

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only....

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative....

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Imagine that the genome is a book.There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.Each chapter contains....

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists....

There is a neat economic explanation for the sexual division of labour in hunter-gatherers. In terms....

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the....

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior....

The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition....