4 Richard Dawkins Quotes on Dna

Richard Dawkins quotes on dna

24. What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world.

48. The river of my title is a river of DNA, and it flows through time, not space. It is a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.

58. ... the true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival. But DNA is not floating free; it is locked up in living bodies and it has made the most of the levers of power at its disposal.

70. You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.