henry louis gates jr. on finding your roots
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.,author and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the...
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hidden in plain sight
Many adoptees talk approximately walking through a crowd,looking at the faces of strangers and...
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blast from the past
The ability to extract and then sequence ancient DNA,not just from ancient human bones, but also...
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neanderthals were more advanced than once believed
Two fire-scarred circular structures found hidden in a cave in France contain altered scientists’...
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know your roots
Among the many brilliant performances on the History Channels remake of the series Roots,is the role...
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olympic search
quickly and sure on the ice,Olympic gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno was less sure about his ancestral...
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dna testing helps amnesiac
A Florida amnesiac has finally figured out his identity with a lot of assist from strangers,genetic...
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another extreme genes podcast
Scott Fisher,the host of the syndicated family history radio demonstrate and podcast Extreme Genes,...
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updates to 23andme paternal haplogroup assignments
With the holiday season upon us,23andMe is sprucing up its paternal haplogroup tree! With 23andMe...
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roots revisited
In a wonderful interview he did with comedian W. Kamau Bell,actor and producer Levar Burton...
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hello cousin
Scientists bear unearthed a trove of bones in a South African cave belonging to a previously...
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breaking through a brick wall
The memory is fleeting but Josh Schultz remembers speaking to his father once. It was a phone...
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tracing back to africa
DNA extracted from bones at a burial site in a rocky valley on a remote island in the South Atlantic...
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the real issue: diversity in genetics research
A recent article in Quartz with the headline “23andMe has a problem when it comes to ancestry...
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