Well, our genes are not our fate, and if we make these changes they're a predisposition but if we make bigger changes than we might have made otherwise, we can actually change how our genes are expressed.

Or you can view it as an evolutionary psychology kind of thing did our genes invent this as a kind of trick to get us to behave in certain ways? The ant's brain, parasitized, to make us behave in certain ways so that our genes would propagate?

One way to change our genes is to make new ones, as Craig Venter has so elegantly shown.

This accounts for why we are often kind to our own flesh and blood those who share our genes.

Because what we're trying to measure, the RNA which is the readout from our genes is very labile, and so we have to move very quickly.

Something called the Danish Twin Study established that only about 10 percent of how long the average person lives, within certain biological limits, is dictated by our genes.

Experience shapes us as much as our genes (or innate talents) do, and online experience is cheaper and easier to shape.

The most important health challenges today are not caused by simple mutations in our genome, but rather result from a complex and dynamic interplay between genetic variation, diet, microbes and parasites and our immune response.

So, this work with emotions, which are so fundamental, then got us to thinking about Maybe the fundamental causes of human social networks are somehow encoded in our genes.

Why do we live longer than dogs? The answer must lie in our genes, because genes are ultimately what make us different from other animals.