Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. . . . More than Mallomars, more than hot sex, we want to belong.
My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene. '
Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.
I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.
I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just. ' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.