Spencer Wells Quotes

With the Toubou we are hoping to find out who were the first people to settle in the Sahara. - Spencer Wells

We believe that some of Adam's characteristics can still be seen in Southern Africa but we need to find out what they are. - Dr Spencer Wells

This is a giant leap forward for field expeditions everywhere. - Spencer Wells

The project is to focus on reconstructing how humans moved around the world, to tell of their migratory routes. - Dr Spencer Wells

The pieces of DNA you find in the Y-chromosome don't go through the same shuffling process that other DNA undergoes, so it is easier to trace. - Spencer Wells

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology. - Spencer Wells

So it really is a synthetic effort to understand our common past. - Spencer Wells

It was tough going. His world was in the grips of the last Ice Age. In Southern Africa it was drier than now, water was difficult to obtain and so were animals. - Dr Spencer Wells

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