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Quotes About Phenotypes

One is that phenotypes that extend outside the body do not have to be inanimate artefacts: they can themselves be built of living tissue.
~ Richard Dawkins
So on the one hand you can have identical genes leading to very different phenotypes, and on the other you can have dissimilar genes producing exactly the same
~ Eva Jablonka
Most recently, the task of assembling the genetic story for specific phenotypic traits has begun. It is still in its early stages, but progress is accelerating nonlinearly. Hence the nervousness that has prevented open discussion of what's going on in the geneticists' parallel universe: the fear that we will discover scary population differences in what I have called cognitive repertoires.
~ Charles Murray