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Robert McCredie May
(8 Jan 1936 - )
Australian ecologist and zoologist who was chief scientific advisor to the UK government (1995–2000), after which he was created a life peer, Baron May of Oxford.
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Science Quotes by Robert McCredie May (1 quote)
We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]
— Robert McCredie May
Quoted in Andy Coglan and Nell Boyce, 'The End of the Beginning: The first draft of the human genome signals a new era for humanity', New Scientist (1 Jul 2000), 167 5.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
