Biology
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635 examples of Biology in a sentence
I first became interested in
biology
and business, and longevity and resilience, when I was asked a very unusual question by the CEO of a global tech company.
And my hope is, if we can turn
biology
and medicine from these high-risk endeavors that are governed by chance and luck, and make them things that we win by skill and hard work, then that would be a great advance.
I study the
biology
of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and behaving, linked with the dopamine, serotonin, testosterone and estrogen systems.
This is the moment I realized that
biology
has been in the transportation business for billions of years.
So yes,
biology
has all the attributes of a transportation genius today.
I wasn't supposed to have fully resourced
biology
or chemistry labs, school buses that brought me door-to-door, freshly prepared school lunches or even air conditioning.
So as a great physicist once said, there's these little upstream eddies of
biology
that create order in this rapid torrent of entropy.
Every newborn was as singular as a snowflake, a matchless mash-up of
biology
and ancestry and mystery.
The very word for many of you conjures unhappy memories of boredom in high school
biology
or physics class.
And you may remember from those boring days in
biology
class that populations tend to distribute around a mean as a Gaussian or a normal curve.
The exception, the outlier drew our attention and led us to something that taught us very important things about the rest of
biology.
Our
biology
tells us that love is good by activating these reward circuits in our brain, and it tells us that love is painful when, after a fight or a breakup, that neurochemical reward is withdrawn.
Here, barely two miles away from what is arguably the greatest marine
biology
lab in the world, we lower a simple plankton net into the water and bring up to the surface things that humanity rarely pays any attention to, and oftentimes has never seen before.
What is even more tragic is that we know about a bunch of other species of animals out there, but their
biology
remains sorely under-studied.
We're so used to thinking in terms of biology, we think about genes this way.
And
biology
tells us two things about Homo sapiens which are very relevant to this issue: first of all, that we are completely dependent on the ecological system around us, and that today we are talking about a global system.
And at the same time,
biology
tells us about Homo sapiens that we are social animals, but that we are social on a very, very local level.
For instance, synthetic
biology
seeks to write
biology
as a design problem.
What are the implications of synthetic biology, genetic engineering, and how are they shaping our notions of what it means to be a human?
My own speculative design research at the current moment plays with synthetic biology, but for more emotionally driven output.
Increasingly common medical conditions like obesity, endocrine disorders, C-section and preterm births all can disrupt the underlying
biology
of lactation.
So we are born already knowing the social information, and that social information is not bad or good, it just prepares us for life, because we have to program our
biology
differently if we are in the high or the low social status.
So some people will bring up evolutionary
biology
and apes, how, you know, female apes bow down to male apes and that sort of thing.
Whatever the color, our skin tells an epic tale of human intrepidness and adaptability, revealing its variance to be a function of
biology.
So how do you make sense of the
biology
of our best behaviors, our worst ones and all of those ambiguously in between?
The challenge is to understand the
biology
of the context of our behaviors, and that's real tough.
Every bit of
biology
I have mentioned here can change in different circumstances.
Same neurons, same neurochemicals, same
biology.
Those who don't study the history of extraordinary human change, those who don't study the
biology
of what can transform us from our worst to our best behaviors, those who don't do this are destined not to be able to repeat these incandescent, magnificent moments.
It's the universe in which these machines are now doing all these things, including changing
biology.
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