Ancestry Quote by Spencer Wells

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

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

— E. O. Wilson

It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of…

— Jerry A. Coyne

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

“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

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as…

— Elliott Sober

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch…

— Ernst Haeckel

“By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man’s genetic commonality. Thus”

— Robert Doherty

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as…

— Thomas Huxley

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

— James Nasmyth