Part 02 · The Genomic Power Shift
Genomics has transformed the way we understand the past. DNA can now help us reconstruct the history of life, follow the movements of ancient peoples, and reveal connections between humans that were invisible to earlier generations of historians and anthropologists. This part explores how genomics is rewriting parts of human history and changing how we think about ancestry, migration and identity.
It also moves from the grand scale of human evolution to the intimate scale of family. Genetic genealogy can uncover biological relatives, confirm family stories or overturn them completely. This chapter asks what it means to be related, how much DNA can really tell us, and why the answers are not always the ones we expect.