Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
for the last 60~ years, a team of Russian scientists located at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Siberia have been running an experiment to domesticate foxes, specifically the wild red fox. at each generation of foxes, they picked the top 10% calmest, most pro-social ones to breed, the rest were discarded. over dozens of... See more
owlx.comSo genes are like gravity—but animals aren’t like atoms.
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"Unlike other animals, cephalopods do not obey the commands of their DNA to the letter. Instead, they sometimes interfere with the code as it is being carried by a molecular “messenger”. RNA, a close cousin of DNA, is used to transfer software-like instructions from the genes to protein-making machinery in cells. This re-coding has the effect of... See more