Biological Traits Quotes

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.

You are either genetically tough or you're not.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.