Human evolution Quote by Nicholas Wade

“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

“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,…

— Nick Bostrom

“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to the contrary…

— Nicholas Wade

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from…

— Bob Waterston

“The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.”

— Matt Ridley

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important,…

— William J. Clinton

“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

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

— Kenneth R. Miller

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

— Barry Schuler

“The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a…

— Svante Pääbo

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter