Robert May, Baron May of Oxford quotes
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“We share half our genes with the banana.”
-- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford -
“In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.”
-- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford -
“We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]”
-- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
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