Wisdom  
James D. Watson
DNA: The Secret of Life

Genetics
Science
Despite the extraordinary advances of the past hundred years or so, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by no means have a monopoly on genetic insight.... The single greatest application of genetics to human well-being was carried out eons ago by anonymous ancient farmers. Almost everything we eat — cereals, fruit, meat, dairy products — is the legacy of that earliest and most far-reaching application of genetic manipulations to human problems.
   
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