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Articles on Genealogy
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Lillipillies are one of Australia’s great gifts to the natural world. But the story of these homegrown heroes may be taking a grim turn.
How we’re linking together genetic material from thousands of people - modern and ancient - to trace our ancestors and the history of our evolution.
Census data is kept under seal for a century. The 1921 records will be the last we see until 2052.
Settler colonials are beginning to understand the true impacts of the criminal takeover of Indigenous lands. They are seeking to right the balance and achieve a spiritual resolution.
We surveyed 1461 Australians and discovered many are museum regulars — but it’s family history that has broad appeal.
Privacy concerns that emerged since law enforcement started mining the databases have put such a serious dent in the business that both Ancestry.com and 23andMe have reduced employees significantly.
Recently in Canada and the United States, a small, but vocal minority of white French-descendants have used an ancestor born between 300 and 400 years ago to claim an “Indigenous” identity.
New research investigated who uses the wide array of tools available to people who’ve received their own raw genetic data and want to maximize what they learn from it.
Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might want to see how much DNA you actually share with these people. It’s not what you thought.
DNA testing is helping reveal people’s unknown royal ancestry.
Police have powerful new genetic tools. How are we going to regulate their use? A Genetic Data Protection Act is one solution to ensure confidence in the way DNA is accessed and used.
The chances of your genetic data being recorded by the state depend on who you are.
DNA evidence tracks the ancient history of the Jewish people.
The results of genetic ancestry tests are grossly over-simplified. A new study shows the tests reinforce what you want to believe rather than offering objective, scientific proof of who you are.
Car parks seem to be intersecting with English history quite a bit lately.
More people are sending off saliva samples to find out about their genetic roots. But the raw DNA results go way beyond genealogical data – and could deliver unintended consequences.
Ancestry and identity are not the same thing. A scientist tells the story of what happened when he sent his DNA to an ancestry company.
We’re at the point in DNA technology where individuals who – having parted with $99 and a small vial of saliva – may suddenly find themselves in a criminal investigation.
A public genealogy data base was used to track down the so-called “Golden State Killer,” raising concerns about the privacy of using public sites to fill out our family trees.
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Professor of English, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Department of Social Justice and Community Studies, Saint Mary’s University
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Adjunct Professor, RMIT University
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Director, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, La Trobe University
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Director, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Professor in the Geographies of Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Population, Medical and Evolutionary Genomics, Lund University
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Professor of Anthropology, Deakin University
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Research Scientist in Biostatistics, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Native Studies and Department of Political Science , University of Alberta
