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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
Engelsk Hardback
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- Identity and DNA in the Levant
Engelsk Hardback

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From a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be indigenous to any land.

In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from.

But acclaimed geneticist Pierre Zalloua believes that these test results have led to a dangerous oversimplification of what one’s genetic heritage means. People have conflated genetic ancestry with other ways of defining themselves such as “origin,” “ethnicity,” and even “race” but give no attention to the complexities that underlie these concepts.

Nowhere is this interplay more important, and more controversial, than in the Levant—an ancient region known as one of the cradles of civilization, and which now includes modern-day Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Turkey. Born in Lebanon, Zalloua grew up surrounded by people for whom this question of identity was one of life or death importance. In Ancestors, Zalloua uses the Levant to grapple with what being indigenous really means. He finds that DNA does not determine a culture or an ethnicity, but instead, one must look to their own history to understand their identity.

Building on years of research, Zalloua tells a history of the Levant through the framework of genetics that spans from 100,000 years ago, when humans first left Africa, to the 21st century and modern nation-states. World-shifting and accessible, Ancestors will reshape the way you think about where our culture really comes from.







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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780593730904
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0593730909
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Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2025
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
136mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Random House USA Inc
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2025
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