Steve Jones Quotes
To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

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We're not into music. We're into chaos.

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Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise. The term should be employed with caution. Some see an arrow of time in biology, as in physics, but in the opposite direction- a relentless tendency to improve, just as a u . . . Read more

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In the end, though, science is what matters; scientists not a bit.

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...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

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Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.

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Life managed without males for its first billion years, much of which was passed as single cells in a series of warm ponds. Then, in some ancient and neutral Eden, the fruit of the tree of sexual knowledge - a new mutation - persuaded members of a particular clone to fuse with cells f . . . Read more

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Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

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