Anthropologists Quote by Lancelot Hogben

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Countless doctors have drawn little tic-tac-toe grids for my parents over the years to try to explain the genetic lottery to them. Geneticists”

— R.J. Palacio

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that…

— Bill Gaede

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

— Spencer Wells

“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”

— Bill Gaede

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the…

— Ernst Mayr

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents…

— Jerome Kagan

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the…

— Richard Goldschmidt

“Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee