Ancestry

“Bias meets DNA: Students at Pennsylvania college asked to learn their ancestry”

“She wondered: What if people started finding out things they didn’t know about themselves?

So she begins with a short survey asking people their race and what they…

“We Are All Princes, Paupers, and Part of the Human Family”

“Chances are, if you have a famous ancestor far enough back that finding out about them is a surprise, you share them with a small city of other people. And the farther back you go, the truer that is. In 2004, statistician…

“Tracing Ancestry, Researchers Produce a Genetic Atlas of Human Mixing Events”

“geneticists applying new statistical approaches have taken a first shot at both identifying and dating the major population mixture events of the last 4,000 years, with the goal of providing a…