Family Tree Quote by Adam Rutherford

“We are all Rumsfeldian, if we are doing science right.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Adam Rutherford

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

— 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…

— Adam Rutherford

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Adam Rutherford