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““Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning. Many””

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“One fifth of people alive a millennium ago in Europe are the ancestors of no one alive today. Their lines of descent petered out…

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“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and back through…

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“There’s a cave in this hinterland of Siberia, called Denisova, named after an eighteenth-century eremite called Denis who lived there.”

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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…

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of…

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“crunching. The amount of introgression from Neanderthals is proportionally lower on the modern X than on the rest of the chromosomes. X chromosomes are…

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“Mind you, Darwin fretted about a lot of stuff, especially his health, his kids, and maybe with just cause. On occasion he would write…

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“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…

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