“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.”
Bryan Sykes“Myths have a very long memory.”
Bryan Sykes, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland“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.”
Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”
Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”
Bryan Sykes, The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry