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Matthew White Ridley, 5º Visconde Ridley, BA, Ph.D., DSc, DL, FRSL, FMedSci, , mais conhecido como Matt Ridley, é um jornalista, escritor, político, zoólogo e empresário inglês. Premiado autor de obras de ciência popular, Ridley já vendeu mais de um milhão de livros, os quais foram traduzidos para 30 línguas. Formado em zoologia e trabalhando há mais de 30 anos como jornalista, Ridley também é afiliado ao Partido Conservador do Reino Unido, membro da Câmara dos Lordes e ocasional palestrante. Sua palestra ao TED "When Ideas Have Sex" foi vista dois milhões de vezes. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Fevereiro 1958   •   Outros nomes 马特·里德利, 馬特·里德利
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“É claro que não há um único gene, mas há algo infinitamente mais enaltecedor e magnífico: toda uma naturza humana, flexivelmente pré-ordenada em nossos cromossomos e indiossincrática de cada um de nós. Todo mundo tem uma única e distina natureza endógena. Um self.”

Matt Ridley livro Genome

Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

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“Computer viruses have since become a worldwide problem. It begins to look as if parasites are inevitable in any system of life.”

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Fonte: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 3

“People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential -the healthy, the fit and the powerful. The consequences of this fact, which goes under the name of sexual selection, are bizarre in the extreme.”

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Fonte: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature

“So sex equals genetic mixing.”

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Fonte: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 2. The Enigma

“Determinism looks backwards to the causes of the present state, not forward to the consequences.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 22 “Free Will” (p. 307)

“The main purpose of most genes in the human genome is regulating the expression of other genes in the genome.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 10 “Stress” (p. 150)

“Nobody doubts that genes can shape anatomy. The idea that they also shape behaviour takes a lot more swallowing.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 7 “Instinct” (p. 91)

“That life is chemistry is true but boring, like saying that football is physics.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 1 “Life” (p. 15)

“Life is a slippery thing to define, but it consists of two very different skills: the ability to replicate, and the ability to create order.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 1 “Life” (p. 12)

“Freedom lies in expressing your own determinism, not somebody else’s. It is not the determinism that makes a difference, but the ownership. If freedom is what we prefer, then it is preferable to be determined by forces that originate in ourselves and not in others.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 22 “Free Will” (p. 313)

“This interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 22 “Free Will” (p. 312)

“Yet the myth persists that genetic determinism is a more implacable kind of fate than social determinism.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 22 “Free Will” (p. 308)

“The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 20 “Politics” (p. 271)

“The politicisation of the issue has had absurd results.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 18 “Cures” (p. 253; referring to genetic engineering)

“Just as we underestimate the degree to which human brains rely upon instincts, so we have generally underestimated the degree to which other animals are capable of learning.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 16 “Memory” (p. 222)

“The subject of learning lies in the provinces of neuroscience and psychology. It is the opposite of instinct. Instinct is generically-determined behaviour; learning is behaviour modified by experience.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 16 “Memory” (p. 220)

“Natural selection has designed all parts of our bodies to last just long enough to see our children into independence, no more.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 14 “Immortality” (p. 202)

“These two processes—linguistic philology and genetic phylogeny—are converging upon a common theme: the history of human migrations.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 13 “Pre-History” (p. 185)

“It underscores yet again the fact that what we call personality is to a considerable degree a question of brain chemistry.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 11 “Personality” (p. 172)

“Judges were never very good at science.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 9 “Disease” (p. 136)

“Genes do indeed behave as if they have selfish goals, not consciously, but retrospectively: genes that behave in this way thrive and genes that don’t don’t.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 8 “Self-Interest” (p. 128)

“If you still thought evolution was about the good of the species, stop thinking so right now.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 113)

“In egalitarian societies, genes matter more.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 6 “Intelligence” (p. 86)

“No study of the causes of intelligence has failed to find a substantial heritability.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 6 “Intelligence” (p. 82)

“Genes are recipes for both anatomy and behaviour.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 37)

“In other words, a record of our past is etched into our genes.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 35)

“Human beings are of course unique. They have, perched between their ears, the most complicated biological machine on the planet. But complexity is not everything, and it is not the goal of evolution. Every species on the planet is unique. Uniqueness is a commodity in oversupply.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 25)

“The pope notwithstanding, the human species is by no means the pinnacle of evolution. Evolution has no pinnacle and there is no such thing as evolutionary progress.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 2 “Species” (p. 24)

“Life consists of the interplay of two kinds of chemicals: proteins and DNA.”

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Fonte: Genome (1999), Chapter 1 “Life” (p. 17)

“Human beings accumulate about one hundred mutations per generation.”

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Introduction (p. 10)
Genome (1999)