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We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.