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Book: She Has Her Mother's Laugh: What Heredity Is, Is Not, and May Become
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  1. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    Burbank might produce thousands of hybrid offspring from which he might pick just a few to propagate into a new generation.
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  2. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    Something must happen to 'stir up their heredities,' as I am fond of saying-to excite in them the variability that normally lies dormant," Burbank later explained
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  3. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    When he bred them, he would discover variations among their offspring.
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  4. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    When Adolf Hitler was imprisoned in 1924, he learned of the Kallikaks in a book he read about heredity. Soon after, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, in which he mimicked the language of American eugenicists, declaring that sterilization of defective people "is the most humane act of mankind.
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  5. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds,"
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  6. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    When a cell divides, it needs another army of molecules to make a second copy of its DNA.
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  7. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    Traveling across Australia, Asia, and Africa, he searched for people with little contact with the West who he could examine. Porteus found that the so-called Bushmen of the Kalahari scored a mental age of seven. Yet his subjects were navigating their way through Porteus's printed mazes in the middle of a vast desert that they could navigate without a map, finding all the food and shelter they required.
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  8. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    Skinner and his colleagues launched a new study to see how far this effect could get passed down. They exposed more female rats to vinclozolin and then bred descendants for several generations. Even after four generations, they found, males kept on developing damaged sperm. Exposures to other chemicals, like DEET and jet fuel, could also alter the rats for generations.
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  9. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    history of heredity
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  10. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    When Nature Neuroscience published Dias's study on memories of smells, they put a picture of Lamarck on the cover, complete with a thatch of gray hair and a high cravat. New
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  11. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    The idea of a pure race is not even a legitimate abstraction," Dobzhansky wrote. "It is a subterfuge to cloak one's ignorance.
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  12. Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:

    single base may change from A to C. A stretch of a hundred bases may be accidentally copied out twice. A thousand bases may be cut out altogether. These are the mutations that scientists like Hugo de Vries and Thomas Hunt Morgan spent years trying to figure out. Mutations can produce new versions of genes-alleles, as they came to be known.
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