Ever since an at-home DNA test revealed a Nigerian ancestry, life-long Evanston resident Tina Penick has reflected on what might have been. “What if we lived in Nigeria? What would that look like?” ...
“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...
For decades, the accepted explanation for the origins of the Japanese people was relatively straightforward. Modern Japanese populations were understood to descend from two major ancestral groups: the ...