Quotes About Biology

Biological systems are influenced by the laws of physics, and it may be that mycelium exploits the natural momentum of matter, just like salmon take advantage of the tides.

And the adoption? How does that work with this theory about families?" "I see it this way. Your biological parents give you their genes, the map of your physical self. But whoever raises you makes you who you are, for better or for worse. Family dynamics are acted out, not built in, though someday scientists might prove otherwise.

Ou, aproveitando uma sugestão de Ortega, o processo em que a vida como biologia passa a ser vida como biografia.

You know, drinking milk doesn't make your boobs get any bigger.

produce new species. One set of parents can produce offspring

He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

key is to uncouple fear from the biological immobility response so that the response can complete itself—work through into a meaningful course of action.

The brain doesn't feel pain.

Perhaps more relevant to us from an attachment standpoint are the classic studies of rat pups separated from their mother in the first two weeks of life, who appear to incur a permanent increase in the expression of genes controlling the secretion of CRF (corticotrophin-releasing factor)

Rhesus monkeys (Suomi 2000) that individuals who carry the "short" allele of the 5-HTT gene are significantly more severely affected by maternal deprivation than are individuals with the "long" allele

In conclusion, the neuroscientific accounts of LeDoux and Damasio deepen the Spinozistic insight that we are embodied minds.

it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

What is the point of building a large nervous system if your life is over in a year or two? The machinery of intelligence is expensive, both to build and to run.

The mind evolved in the sea.

Cephalopods are evolution's only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and

mammals and birds can live longer, if they don't get eaten

our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature

the Garden of Ediacara.

To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their main subjects were biology and mathematics. A purpose behind them, the purpose that steered both them and the school, had caused them to align their own fates as closely as possible with God.

They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

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