Ancestor Quote by Bryan Sykes

““DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.””

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“Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.”

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“Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.”

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“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

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“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”

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“the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote in AD 98, ‘For myself I accept the view that the people of Germany have never been tainted…

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