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Modern Epigenetics

2020-01-30 · 1,638 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Modern Epigenetics — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no
Modern Epigenetics — pen and ink drawing

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"It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway." – Richard Dawkins, in "The Economist", Vol. 328, (1993).

"The attitudes vary between countries, there are numerous texts for various types of biobanks, the same texts raise different interpretations in different institutions, there are new ethical opinions expressed, and mainly the novelty of questions raised by the uses of samples that are possible today, especially in genetics, and were not foreseeable at the time of sampling make the…

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