Richard Lynn

Person · Open Library

Born

1930

Works

22

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1947-09-26

Active to

2015-07-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5

Total plays

12

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 63,432x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,281x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 47,681x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 47,337x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,689x

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Quotes

• “We put down mad dogs; we kill the wild, untamed ox; we use the knife on sick sheep to stop their infecting the flock; we destroy abnormal offspring at birth; children, too, if they are born weak or deformed, we drown. Yet this is not the work of anger, but of reason – to separate the sound from the worthless.”
• “In one of my last conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilisation natural selection had no play and the fittest did not survive... It is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.”
• “One of the effects of civilisation is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.”
• “There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”
• “To aid the bad in multiplying is, in effect, the same as maliciously providing for our descendants a multitude of enemies. Institutions which 'foster good-for-nothings' commit an unquestionable injury because they put a stop to that natural process of elimination by which society continually purifies itself.”
• “This is the law of Mendel,And often he maken it plain, Defectives will breed defectives, And the insane breed insane.Oh why do we allow these peopleTo breed back to the monkey's nest,To increase our country's burdensWhen we should only breed the best?”

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