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, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of… — 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 out of the seeds of the Enlightenment, or the development of modern methods of long-distance navigation.… — 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
