Genetic Similarities Quotes

In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

I am truly my mother's son.

I learned early on that just because you come from the same blood as someone doesn't mean they are family.

Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.

I have my dad's shape. No booty.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

I've always been fascinated with twins.

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my mother, when she was young, could be sisters.

I always had a fascination with twins.

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

My parents are very similar to me.

All my brothers have my father's voice.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.