Saima Baig

“It is in the area of shedding light on human migrations—rather than in explaining human biology—that the genome revolution has already been a runaway success. In the last few years, the genome revolution—turbocharged by ancient DNA—has revealed that human populations are related to each other in ways that no one expected. The story that is emerging differs from the one we learned as children, or from popular culture. It is full of surprises: massive mixtures of differentiated populations; sweeping population replacements and expansions; and population divisions in prehistoric times that did not fall along the same lines as population differences that exist today. It is a story about how our interconnected human family was formed, in myriad ways never imagined.”
― David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

“Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): New Illustrated Edition with 67 Original Drawings by A. Frederics, a Detailed Map of Tour, and a Photo of the Three Men

“I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“Alas, we are no more or less evolved than any creature. Uniqueness is terribly overrated.”
― Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes