Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Names have power.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

Because of him(Kikwang) I was able to join BEAST.