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“Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.”

Quote by Spencer Wells

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Spencer Wells is a renowned geneticist born on April 6, 1969, in the United States. His research in human genetics has provided significant evidence for human origins and migration. more

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