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
attributed, The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations
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.
THEODULE RIBOT
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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