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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it.
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Today's Europeans are fairly uniform, genetically speaking. But that uniformity came out of a biological blender.
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The concept of genes driving people's appetite caused them to lose some control of their own.
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If heredity is a kind of memory, methylation suffers radical amnesia in every generation.
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It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature of those differences-both the ones we can see and the ones we can't.
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In fact, there's no single species of bacteria that we humans all share. We house personalized zoos.
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The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries because they are regenerated across the generations.
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