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When the meme began, in The Selfish Gene in 1976, the message was a negative one: genes aren't the only pebbles on the Darwinian beach. In 1998, in Unweaving the Rainbow, I could be more positive: "There is an ecology of memes, a tropical rainforest of memes, a termite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Selfish Meme | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

THE MASTER GENEALOGIST from Wholly Genes software (about $89 for the gold version; $49 for the silver; Windows), one of the most expensive programs but also one of the most powerful, handles an unlimited number of people, relationships and sources. "There are easier programs," admits Wholly Genes president Bob Velke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Program Your Family History | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Human beings and the great apes had a common ancestor about 5 million years ago. The genes of the two groups differ hardly at all, but some of them are differently arranged. By using that information, along with hominid fossils, we shall learn what genetic changes made it possible for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Figuring out how the chemical operations essential for survival are carried out within every cell of living creatures (people included) is a task dominated by complexity. The Human Genome Project aims to specify the location and structure of all 100,000 or so genes in the human body. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

1910 Working with fruit flies, U.S. biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that some genetic traits are sex-linked and that the genes governing these traits are located on chromosomes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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