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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. This is a book about the signal and the noise.
“Ten generations back, for example, the number of ancestral stretches of DNA is around 757 but the number of ancestors is 1,024, guaranteeing that each person has several hundred ancestors from whom he or she has received no DNA whatsoever.”
― Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
― Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
“But science’s biggest flaw and biggest virtue is that it almost always mistakes agreement for truth.”
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
“Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it.”
― Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
― Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
“The question of when life begins is answered according to the purposes for which we ask it.”
― Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
― Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
“We are often more tender to the dead than to the living, though it is the living who need our tenderness most.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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