Is American genetic diversity enough?
When we sampled 200 people in Queens for the Genographic ‘Human Family Tree’ Project in 2008 we even found a Khoisan lineage – part of what was effectively a microcosm of global genetic diversity in a single urban US population. — Spencer Wells (@spwells) May 1, 2018 In the nearly 20 years since the draft […]
Ancestry does not always match up with appearance
A few years ago I watched a bunch of Megan Bowen’s YouTubes about living in Korea as an expat. In one episode she had explained that the reason she had a black American accent (she’s from Georgia I think) is that she is a black American. Just a very light-skinned one. In other videos, you […]
“Asian” in all the right places
mtDNA haplogroup G1a2
The pith: In this post I examine the most recent results from 23andMe for my family in the context of familial and regional (Bengal) history. I also use these results to offer up a framework for the ethnognesis of the eastern Ben…