“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are too untidy, human history is too convoluted, people too motile. The deck has been shuffled and reshuffled. Genetics has shown that people are different, and these differences cluster according to geography and culture, but never in a way that aligns with the traditional concepts of human races.”
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
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“Except if you’re of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.”
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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