Madhur

“Putting these three things together we arrive at our own ‘central theorem’ of the extended phenotype: An animal’s behaviour tends to maximize the survival of the genes ‘for’ that behaviour, whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“What causes Alzheimer’s disease is a burning question because that holds the key to preventing it. The answer depends on how you define cause. The immediate cause may well be the formation of tau or amyloid-beta filaments in the brain. However, an earlier and root cause is the cell’s inability to manage the excess of unfolded proteins that aggregate to form these filaments”
― Venki Ramakrishnan, Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

“The genes in one organism’s cells, then, can have extended phenotypic influence on the living body of another organism; in this case a parasite’s genes find phenotypic expression in the behaviour of its host.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

“South Asia is clearly among the least integrated regions of the world and being located at the centre of the Indian Ocean, its dysfunctionality affects that larger space directly.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World