Genetic Crossroads
Genetic Crossroads The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Early in the twentieth century,…
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Genetic Crossroads
The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history-as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind-was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens.
These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution.Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities.