![So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.](/assets/img/quote-photos/so-what-we-can-answer-as-geneticists-is-questions-about-biology-about-biologic.jpg)
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