Spencer Wells Quotes
- DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
- We are all Africans under the skin.
- Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the…
- Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
- The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
- So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to…
- Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.
- If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.