“If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.” IfsKnowsHumansLooksMayIdeasIdentityBunchBeing The BestVirusesBest PlaceGenome Author:Carl Zimmer
“Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.” IfsYearsLooksMillionsYears AgoAncestorVirusesMammalsGenome Author:Carl Zimmer
“Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.” WorldLooksHeartTodayBrainConsciousnessProduceCommunicationSorrowConstantBillionsSensesBreathingChemicalsOur ThoughtsConstructsLungsIntricateLabyrinthHeart BeatNeuronsHeart Beating Book:Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World Source: Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
