Art & Ancestry is an experimental design project exploring the interaction between art, science and ancestry.

Genetic ghosts. Forgotten histories. The illusion of race. The science of ancestry is interesting, meaningful, and non-intuitive. For most of human history ancestry has been shrouded in mystery and used as a divisive cultural weapon. With recent advances in genetic and genomic research, we are poised to enter a new era of understanding and common ground.

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The Genealogical Adam and Eve

The Genealogical Adam and Eve is a book written by S. Joshua Swamidass, M.D. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Genomics at Washington University in Saint Louis. The book invites a conversation about ancestry: from Adam and Eve to evolution, from race to kinship, from sacred to natural history. This conversation flows across five sections: fracture, ancestor, human, mystery, and crossroad. Each movement of the book is rich in visually inspiration, but also includes several layers of meaning.