“Time is the substance from which I am made. —Jorge Luis Borges”
― Middlegame
― Middlegame
“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
“I’m not certain of anything now. I don’t love God as much as Hassan does, nor any living person as much as you love Hassan.”
― The Bird King
― The Bird King
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”
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“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
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