The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.
We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related. Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor. This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us. Our genes did not just appear when we were born. They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?
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.
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.
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
Excluding nobody, I'm the best player in the National Football League.
"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed. . . awake. " Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping. "
Where resources are plentiful (i. e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i. e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!