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We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

People like to trace their ancestry.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.