I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
