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> [Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/many-of-the-crises-we-see-in-the-21st-century-i-would-argue-have/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

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## More by Spencer Wells

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/it-turns-out-that-every-person-alive-today-can-trace-his-or-her/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/we-spent-an-enormous-amount-of-time-as-hominids-and-as-primates/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [“Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/creativity-is-imagining-something-that-isn-t-there-and-making-it-real/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/dna-ties-us-all-together-we-share-ancestry-with-barracuda-and/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/imagine-you-re-copying-a-very-long-document-and-occasionally-you-ll/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/the-biggest-revolution-of-the-past-50-000-years-of-human-history-was/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [We are all Africans under the skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/we-are-all-africans-under-the-skin/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/every-drop-of-human-blood-contains-a-history-book-written-in-the/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/if-you-go-far-enough-back-your-genome-connects-you-with-bacteria/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/many-of-the-crises-we-see-in-the-21st-century-i-would-argue-have/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/what-if-i-told-you-every-single-person-in-america-every-single-person/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/taken-with-the-archaeological-data-we-can-say-that-the-old-hypothesis/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/the-greatest-history-book-ever-written-is-the-one-hidden-in-our-dna/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

> [ So what we can answer \[as geneticists\] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-wells/so-what-we-can-answer-as-geneticists-is-questions-about-biology-about/)

[Spencer Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-wells/)

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