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…

— 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…

— Spencer Wells

“Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.”

— Spencer Wells

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

— 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…

— 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…

— Spencer Wells

We are all Africans under the skin.

— Spencer Wells

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

— Spencer Wells

If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked…

— Spencer Wells

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

— Spencer Wells

What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small…

— Spencer Wells

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language…

— Spencer Wells

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically…

— Spencer Wells