Quotes from Christine Kenneally

According to Ralph, based on the DNA you have in common, these distant cousins may be fifth cousins, but they might also be fifteenth cousins, and you may share a common ancestor much further back than you think.

A child's ability to learn many words is so completely different from anything observed in other species that many researchers propose that some neural mechanism must be especially dedicated to this acquisition of linguistic knowledge.

Other regions that have been influenced by the Neanderthal genome are implicated in human diseases, such as lupus, Crohn's disease, and type 2 diabetes, and even in behavior, such as addiction to cigarettes.

While Smith is, unsurprisingly, the most common name in England, any English surname that is held by at least ten thousand people is effectively a Smith-type name. (This includes the Kings, the Brays, and the Steads, for example.) No doubt, if surnames were just coming into general use now, Smith would be one of the rarer names, and we would perhaps be encountering more John Analysts, Jack Realtors, and Susan Hackers.