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ANCESTORS: Identity and DNA in the Levant
This concise and powerful book is a conversation piece, the subject absolutely engrossing, poignant, and timely. A JOURNEY OF HUMAN DIVERSITY is a blend of science, history, and memoir, written by Pierre Zalloua, a population geneticist who grew up in Lebanon and has been investigating the genetics landscape of Levantine and regional populations for more than twenty years. The stories he shares are based on his scientific research into the modern and ancient populations of the Levant and southwest Asia, imbued with personal experiences with Levantine cultures.
The Levant (or, the Eastern Mediterranean) is the birthplace of everything from the first empires and first written languages to the first codes of law and the first religious institutions. It is truly the blueprint for the first concept of “Society.” So imagine when, thousands of years later, anyone can pick up a 23AndMe test kit and find out their genetics and discover they have Aboriginal, Native American, Mauri, or Swahili genes. In these blurring of lines, borne from a place where its identities are already complex, fuzzy at best, and politicized, biologist Pierre Zalloua also explores the way these DNA tests have been misleading. What makes someone indigenous? What does "race" mean? How can we claim our identity from genetic information? To understand what any indigenous population is, one must look beyond, but not ignore genetics. Zalloua brings a novel approach, incorporating, identity, culture, ethnicity, origins, and DNA to explore indigeneity beyond its currently accepted boundaries.
Pierre Zalloua’s work in genetics has been focused primarily on East Mediterranean populations. He earned his PhD in genetics from the University of California at Davis. He completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in population genetics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he is currently an adjunct professor. He has served as the principal investigator for National Geographic’s Genographic Project in the Middle East and North Africa and has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in the field of genetics. Some of his work has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and most major international media outlets. He is featured in a documentary film about his work produced by National Geographic entitled Quest for the Phoenicians.
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