Spencer Wells Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Book #Blood #Language
“DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Motivation #Inspiration #Mushrooms
“We are all Africans under the skin.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Skins
“Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Taken #Data #People
“The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Book #Dna
“So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Answers #Patterns #Ancestry
“Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.”
-- Spencer Wells

#Mistake #Long #Generations

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