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Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

— Steve Jones The Language of the Genes (1994)

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Finland — a country that is a dilute solution of land in water.

Darwin's Ghost (2000)

Sex must be important as it is so expensive.

The Language of the Genes (1994)

Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

Y: The Descent of Men (2003)

Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. he sent Darwin a copy of Das Kapital (which was found unread after his death).

The Language of the Genes (1994)

Just why abstinence is a bad thing is not certain. In spite of the attractions of the mutation theory the frank answer is that, although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

The Language of the Genes (1994)

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