The Victims Left Behind by Genetic Genealogy
“Reading the news, you might think that “young, pretty, white women are being killed at astronomically high rates,” says Amy Michael, a biological anthropologist at the University of New Hampshire who works on unidentified bodies. But it’s actually Black men and Indigenous women who are disproportionately likely to be murdered, she says. “So where is that?””
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The Atlantic
Published: Jan 27, 2021
Length: 9 minutes (2,327 words)
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
In 2019, only 18 babies in Denmark were born with Down syndrome. Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t.
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The Atlantic
Published: Nov 18, 2020
Length: 31 minutes (7,888 words)
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
“Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.”
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The Atlantic
Published: Mar 18, 2019
Length: 21 minutes (5,445 words)
Facebook Groups as Therapy
“People are sharing their deepest secrets on Facebook. Does the social network understand what it’s gotten into?” (And more importantly, what its responsibilities are?)
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The Atlantic
Published: Nov 26, 2018
Length: 6 minutes (1,616 words)