Quote by Michael Lewis

“Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day,…

— Adam Rutherford

“Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them. We assume they are more or less…

— Michael Lewis

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

— Kari Stefansson

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living…

— Michael Lewis

“Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to…

— Amitav Ghosh

“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because they establish…

— Nicholas Wade

“Ruth McQuillan and a massive international team scanned the DNA of 35,000 people across twenty-one European countries, and looked for identical genetic variants on…

— Adam Rutherford

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values,…

— Geert Wilders

“Our recent divergence from a small population explains another important fact, one that every human ought to know: we are a genetically homogenous species.”

— Daniel E. Lieberman

“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

“Each of us begins life with the seeds of a unique genetic inheritance”

— Donald H. Clark

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

— Katherine Dunn