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DNA Testing of Immigrants Is Unethical

January 26, 2021 at 9:30 pm

The collection of genetic biodata for the reunification of families must safeguard individuals’ agency, provide meaningful informed consent, and protect privacy. DNA …

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Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?

January 29, 2020 at 5:26 pm

Scans compare a Neanderthal fossil (at left) to a modern human skull (right). Philipp Gunz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Around 200,000 years ago, in what is …

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Things That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An Interdisciplinary Essay on a Relational Theory of Life

September 10, 2019 at 2:14 pm

By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France …

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How Some Tried—and Failed—to Kill “Race” in Latin America

July 3, 2019 at 5:25 pm

DNA sequencing is now used extensively in medicine, forensic science, and explorations of ancestry. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images When the structure of DNA …

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Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean

April 8, 2019 at 4:46 pm

Rastafari-grounded and Caribbean imaginative reinventions have long influenced the evolution of Caribbean ethnography. They could inspire a decolonial anthropology for this century. …

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Resisting Indigenous Erasure from Alcatraz Island to Elizabeth Warren

April 8, 2019 at 4:43 pm

A critical look at anthropology and 50 years in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty (1969–2019). Indians must be redefined in terms that …

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BONUS: What Carl Zimmer Learned About DNA, Identity, and Heredity

November 14, 2018 at 7:03 pm

Surprise! As a special holiday treat, the SAPIENS team is presenting this unedited conversation between SAPIENS host Chip Colwell and acclaimed science …

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Revisiting Geno-colonization: Senator Warren and “Native DNA”

October 15, 2018 at 6:15 pm

I woke up this morning to the news that Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test “providing strong evidence” that she …

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Is Your DNA You?

August 14, 2018 at 6:51 pm

[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS What does your DNA have to do with who you are? On a journey for answers, SAPIENS hosts Chip …

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Written in Blood

July 12, 2018 at 3:10 pm

How my research on DNA ancestry tests became fake news. When I was sent a link to a Snopes article asking, “Did …

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About those Ancestry dot com commercials

May 26, 2018 at 4:17 am

In the fall 2017 quarter I kicked off my intro to cultural anthropology course with one of those Ancestry dot com videos. …

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Ten Skeletons Bury a Right-Wing Talking Point

April 11, 2018 at 4:03 pm

Anglo-Saxon mythologies and culture continue to enchant many who live in the U.K. Andrew Parsons/Getty Images This article was originally published at The …

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How to make a good ad

September 8, 2017 at 9:10 pm

There are two DNA ads running at the moment. They illuminate the art of advertising today. The first is called Testimonial: Livie …

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How Molecular Clocks Are Refining Human Evolution’s Timeline

August 9, 2017 at 4:22 pm

Our cells have a built-in genetic clock, tracking time—but how accurately? Mauro Hiroshi Cannas/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and …

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DNA and Indigeneity

March 21, 2016 at 1:45 pm

DNA in the News Rapid developments in genetic technologies are allowing for innovative applications in archaeology and anthropology. Intriguing scientific studies hinting …

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