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“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
“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
“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
“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
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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