DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
A genetic match to an ancient person doesn’t mean you’re more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images Shai Carmi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harald Ringbauer, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long […]