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> [“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy available only for royalty says this was him. Richard III is now the oldest person to be unequivocally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/brain-activity-in-a-heartbeat-all-of-that-says-richard-but-the-dna-in/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

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> [“The oldest genome of a European comes from a 37,000-year-old square-jawed man who washed up on the banks of the mighty River Don in southern Russia. He’s called Kostenki today, and his DNA showed similarities with more recent European hunter-gatherers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/the-oldest-genome-of-a-european-comes-from-a-37-000-year-old-square/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

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## More by Adam Rutherford

> [“We are all Rumsfeldian, if we are doing science right.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/we-are-all-rumsfeldian-if-we-are-doing-science-right/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved to thrive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/the-unglamorous-truth-is-that-there-are-but-a-handful-of-uniquely/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Except if you’re of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/except-if-you-re-of-european-descent-your-lactase-continues-to-work/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent petered out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/one-fifth-of-people-alive-a-millennium-ago-in-europe-are-the/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Nineteen teeth from twelve sixth-century plague pits in Aschheim near Munich provided the source of the Code of Justinian. In among the ancient human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/nineteen-teeth-from-twelve-sixth-century-plague-pits-in-aschheim-near/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and back through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/there-are-dozens-of-documented-cases-of-roma-or-irish-travelers-being/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“There’s a cave in this hinterland of Siberia, called Denisova, named after an eighteenth-century eremite called Denis who lived there.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/there-s-a-cave-in-this-hinterland-of-siberia-called-denisova-named/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“brain activity in a heartbeat. All of that says Richard. But the DNA in consort with the paper trail of a genealogy available only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/brain-activity-in-a-heartbeat-all-of-that-says-richard-but-the-dna-in/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/ignorance-more-frequently-begets-confidence-than-does-knowledge-says/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“crunching. The amount of introgression from Neanderthals is proportionally lower on the modern X than on the rest of the chromosomes. X chromosomes are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/crunching-the-amount-of-introgression-from-neanderthals-is/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he would write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/mind-you-darwin-fretted-about-a-lot-of-stuff-especially-his-health/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Pedigree is a word derived from the middle French phrase pied de grue—the crane’s foot—as the digits and hallux spread from a single joint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/pedigree-is-a-word-derived-from-the-middle-french-phrase-pied-de-grue/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“The oldest genome of a European comes from a 37,000-year-old square-jawed man who washed up on the banks of the mighty River Don in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/the-oldest-genome-of-a-european-comes-from-a-37-000-year-old-square/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“By 5500 BCE, we were making cheese. Sieves and pottery colanders resembling modern cheese strainers had been found in Poland, and in 2012, again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/by-5500-bce-we-were-making-cheese-sieves-and-pottery-colanders/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

> [“Amylase digests starchy, carbohydrate-rich foods, and helps generate glucose from them, which would provide much needed energy for the evolving and highly energetic brain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-rutherford/amylase-digests-starchy-carbohydrate-rich-foods-and-helps-generate/)

[Adam Rutherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-rutherford/)

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