Word: cunningness
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Molecular biology's wizards have managed to cross that obstacle in their work with bacteria. Unlike higher organisms, bacteria are single-celled creatures that usually reproduce not by sexual mating but by simply dividing. Thus their ability to acquire new and possibly advantageous genes would seem to be highly...
Throughout his book, Dawkins writes as though genes are conscious entitites possessing human characteristics such as greed, selfishness, intelligence, and cunning. He says,
This perspective is simply a distorted one. Nucleotides and guanine molecules can't be selfish and they can't be cunning. Genes don't fight for survival. Genes couldn't care less whether they replicate or not. Different genes give organisms different traits. Some of these traits are conducive to...
Indeed, if numbers are any indication, Pappy Hunt may not have to rely on cunning to advance the Radcliffe cause this spring. A host of new athletes, the majority of whom are freshmen and sophomores, have sprung out of the air to bolster the sagging record of last year's...
Weak spots in an otherwise solid line-up are Elizabeth Meade as Alais, Henry's latest mistress, and Jeffrey Trescott as Philip, the French king. Slender and sweet-voiced, Meade looks and sounds perfect for the part, but her emotional range is limited to a state of placid melancholy. Trescott...