It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live,… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.” — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the industrial age… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
