Our DNA is Not Our Identity
Krystal Tsosie |
TEDxVanderbiltUniversity
• November 2019
Everyone questions who they are and their place in the world (“Who am I?” and “Where did I come from?”). These are questions that are perhaps universal throughout all of time and across cultures. Direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry tests such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA have provided, for many people, a potentially new way of answering these oft-posited questions. Genealogy is one of the most popular hobbies in the U.S., and there is certainly an increased interest in genetic genealogy databases (such as GEDmatch which led police to the Golden State Killer) that people use to determine their familial connections.