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“Putting these three things together we arrive at our own ‘central theorem’ of the extended phenotype: An animal’s behaviour tends to maximize the survival of the genes ‘for’ that behaviour, whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing it.”
― The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
― The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“What causes Alzheimer’s disease is a burning question because that holds the key to preventing it. The answer depends on how you define cause. The immediate cause may well be the formation of tau or amyloid-beta filaments in the brain. However, an earlier and root cause is the cell’s inability to manage the excess of unfolded proteins that aggregate to form these filaments”
― Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
― Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
“A 2018 study estimated that the resources drained from India by the UK alone were as much as $ 45 trillion by current value.”
― The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
― The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
“South Asia is clearly among the least integrated regions of the world and being located at the centre of the Indian Ocean, its dysfunctionality affects that larger space directly.”
― The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
― The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
“I find,' he says, his voice still muffled, 'that I am constantly wondering where he is. Where he has gone. It is like a wheel ceaselessly turning at the back of my mind. Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can't have just vanished. He must be somewhere. All I have to do is find him. I look for him everywhere, in every street, in every crowd, in every audience. That's what I am doing, when I look out at them all: I try to find him, or a version of him.”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
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