HEREDITY QUOTES II

quotations about heredity

Heredity is a conservative force: the genes function as templates for the production of their exact copies; by making the offspring resemble their parents, heredity confers stability upon biological systems.

THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY

Genetics of the Evolutionary Process


If vital actions, in their production and in their evolution are subject to determinism, and if physiological heredity is bound up with organic heredity, is it not plain that hereditary transmission is one of the causes that introduce mechanism into mental activity, and which introduce nature into the domain of free will?

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Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and Consequences


Heredity is the process which renders possible that persistence of organic beings throughout successive generations, which is generally thought to be so well understood as to need no special explanation.

AUGUST WEISMANN

Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems


Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

DOUG LARSON

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I know a little about the theory of heredity. My father, as I discovered with no little difficulty, was a wanderer, a churl, a troublemaker and a swashbuckler. My genes on the spear side may be dominant over the genes on the distaff side. The fact that I can swash a buckler pretty well seems to confirm that.

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI

Czas Pogardy


Heredity is but one form of that ultimate law which by physicists is called the conservation of energy, and by metaphysicians universal casuality.

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Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and Consequences


With a good heredity, nature deals you a fine hand at cards; and with a good environment, you learn to play the hand well.

WALTER C. ALVAREZ

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