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"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
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"Aliens are within the human genes."
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"During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project."
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"Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he'll grow up to be a demon just because his dad _became_ one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me."
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"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
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"The long-lived gene as an evolutionary unit is not any particular physical structure but the textual archival information that is copied on down the generations. [I]t is widely distributed in space among different individuals, and widely distributed in time over many generations. [A] successful gene will be one that does well in the environments provided by these other genes that it is likely to meet in lots of different bodies."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
Information
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
Children
"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
People
"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."
Thought
"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
Doctrine
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture."
Nature
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
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