Category: Genetics

All the dates I learned when I started reading about DNA keep changing.

After all the X chromosome news we’ve had lately, there’s not much anyone can say that’s really news.

They found a new branch of the y chromosome that’s older than anything found so far. The human  “The new divergent lineage, which was found in an individual who submitted his DNA to Family Tree DNA, a company specializing in DNA analysis to trace family roots, branched from the Y chromosome tree before the first…

Details! We want actual details. What kind of DNA testing? What specific results??

“At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a ‘memory’. That the lives of your grandparents — the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw — can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself. And that…