Copeland Libby
Copeland Libby - The Lost Family: How Dna Testing Is Upending Who We Are - Paperback
Copeland Libby - The Lost Family: How Dna Testing Is Upending Who We Are - Paperback
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Description: A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives You swab your cheek or spit into a vial then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long - buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession an incessant desire to find answers to questions at the core of your being like Who am I? and Where did I come from? Welcome to the age of home genetic testing. In The Lost Family journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs the science of DN a and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23and Me all while tracing the story of one woman her unusual results and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story. The Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DN a tests a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who ve used the tests to find their birth parents; donor - conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren t biologically related to them a phenomenon so common it is known as a non - paternity event ; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are discovered. Throughout these accounts Copeland explores the impulse toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty million people having undergone home DN a testing the answer to that question is more important than ever. Gripping and masterfully told The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big timely subject.
Title: The Lost Family: How Dna Testing Is Upending Who We Are
Author(s): Copeland Libby
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419747939
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Popular Science
Description: A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives You swab your cheek or spit into a vial then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long - buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession an incessant desire to find answers to questions at the core of your being like Who am I? and Where did I come from? Welcome to the age of home genetic testing. In The Lost Family journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs the science of DN a and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23and Me all while tracing the story of one woman her unusual results and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story. The Lost Family delves into the many lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DN a tests a technology that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who ve used the tests to find their birth parents; donor - conceived adults who suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren t biologically related to them a phenomenon so common it is known as a non - paternity event ; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are discovered. Throughout these accounts Copeland explores the impulse toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty million people having undergone home DN a testing the answer to that question is more important than ever. Gripping and masterfully told The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big timely subject.
Title: The Lost Family: How Dna Testing Is Upending Who We Are
Author(s): Copeland Libby
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419747939
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Popular Science
