## Metadata - Author: [[Wade Davis]] - Full Title: The Wayfinders - Category: #books ## Highlights - The most remote society on earth contains within its people fully 85 percent of our total genetic diversity. Were the rest of humanity to be swept away by plague or war, the Waorani or the Barasana, the Rendille or the Tuareg would have within their blood the genetic endowment of all of humanity. Like a sacred repository of spirit and mind, any one of these cultures, any one of the 7,000, could provide the seeds from which humanity in all its diversity might be reborn. ([Location 223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IN8OT5I&location=223))