Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves

How genetics can provide novel, fascinating, and objective data on human identity–when identity has never been more important.

Our identity, both personal and collective, is a fluid and complex narrative often rooted in the past. This past can now be explored with new technological developments; in the last few years, more than 12,000 ancient human genomes have been retrieved. At the same time, ancestry test companies are building conceptions on our identity based on genetic data from litera...