Top 6 Quotes by Bryan Sykes

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

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

Journey, People, Legacy

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

Bryan Sykes

Dna, Connections, Generations

Bryan Sykes (2010). “The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Bryan Sykes

Italian, Race, Dna

"Does God value one race above others?". The Watchtower, July 01, 2011.

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

Bryan Sykes

Evidence, Ambiguous, Myth

Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Bryan Sykes

Different, Pool, Genes