[読書メモ] “The Ancestor’s Tale”

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Understood in this way, the DNA record is an almost unbelievably rich gift to the historian.

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In the light of this, see how empty are most of those passionate arguments about the naming of particular hominid fossils.

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The brilliant theoretical physicist Richard Feynman is rumoured to have said, ‘If you think you understand quantum theory, you don’t understand quantum theory.'

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Astonishingly, it is only a hundred years since the Wright brothers first achieved powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine.