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We are impressed that some eight hundred years ago Saint Francis urged that all forms of hostility or conflict be avoided and that a humble and fraternal “subjection” be shown to those who did not share his faith.
“When the driver of a car is overtaking a truck on a narrow road, for example, adult passengers quite sensibly stop talking.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Ancient DNA has established major migration and mixture between highly divergent populations as a key force shaping human prehistory, and ideologies that seek a return to a mythical purity are flying in the face of hard science.”
― 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
“For the time had come when they could talk together not only as father and daughter, but as man and woman, able and glad to serve each other with mutual sympathy as well as mutual love.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“The extraordinary fact that emerges from ancient DNA is that just five thousand years ago, the people who are now the primary ancestors of all extant northern Europeans had not yet arrived.”
― 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
“Human history is full of dead ends, and we should not expect the people who lived in any one place in the past to be the direct ancestors of those who live there today.”
― 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
Justine’s 2025 Year in Books
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