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The Gene: An Intimate History

Book by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 4 quotes · Gen, Genetics, Science

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“Most notably, perhaps, children with Down syndrome have an extraordinary sweetness of temperament, as if in inheriting an extra chromosome they had acquired a concomitant loss of cruelty and malice (if there is any doubt that genotypes can influence temperament or personality, then a single encounter with a Down child can lay that idea to rest).”