Spencer Wells
Spencer Wells
Spencer Wellsis a geneticist, anthropologist, author, entrepreneur, adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and owner of Antone's, an iconic nightclub in Austin, Texas. He led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 April 1969
CountryUnited States of America
chain connects far genome great linked
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.
crises
Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.
adapting amount enormous natural profoundly spent suddenly time unnatural
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and working out how to live with it.
skins
We are all Africans under the skin.