Quotes Tagged With :ancestry

The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck,....

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree....

The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains....

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns....

A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical....

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes....

My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where....

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port