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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. This is a book about the signal and the noise.
“We geneticists may be the barbarians coming late to the study of the human past, but it is always a bad idea to ignore barbarians.”
― 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 question of when life begins is answered according to the purposes for which we ask it.”
― Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
― Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
“Remember about mountains: what they are made of is not what made them.”
― Annals of the Former World
― Annals of the Former World
“Ten generations back, for example, the number of ancestral stretches of DNA is around 757 but the number of ancestors is 1,024, guaranteeing that each person has several hundred ancestors from whom he or she has received no DNA whatsoever.”
― 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
“To earn the prestigious descriptor of “venomous,” an organism must be more than just toxic; it must also have a specific means of delivering its dangerous goods into another animal. It has to be proactive about its toxicity.”
― Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
― Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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