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“Back in the year 960, Christian missionaries invaded Scandinavia and threatened the Vikings: if you persist in your pagan customs you will end up in hell where eternal fires burn. The Vikings welcomed the good news. They trembled from cold, not fear.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

“It was one thing to get the sequence of one little piece of mtDNA that looked interesting from the Neanderthal fossil, but it would be quite another to convince ourselves, let alone the rest of the world,”
― Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

“In 1492 the natives discovered they were Indians, they discovered they lived in America, they discovered they were naked, they discovered there was sin, they discovered they owed obedience to a king and a queen from another world and a god from some other heaven, and this god had invented guilt and clothing and had ordered burned alive all who worshipped the sun and the moon and the earth and the rain that moistens it.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

“I myself had often suggested that extraordinary claims about DNA sequences from ancient bones require extraordinary evidence—namely, repetition of the results in another lab, an unusual step in a typically competitive scientific field.”
― Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes