“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the feet of men. Yet the association is strong and undeniable” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago, when he… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead.… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene,… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon/Teutonic racial superiority over” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote in AD 98, ‘For myself I accept the view that the people of Germany have never been tainted… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
“I will leave you to imagine a world without men, but there is one immediate benefit from their extinction. Adam's curse is permanently lifted.… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share
