An excellent and very important article on the risks of missing the forest of social kinship through the trees of aDNA work!
Trevor Wiley
DNA is not the same as kinship.
Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:
• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research
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