Bryan Sykes Quotes

#1. Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.

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#2. Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead. It is not eroded by wind or rain, nor reduced to ruin by fire and earthquake. It is the traveller from an ancient land who lives within us all.

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#3. Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?

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#4. Myths have a very long memory.

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#5. Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

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#6. Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

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#7. DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

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#8. There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification ... I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't ... We're very closely related.

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#9. By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

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