Welcome To Your Very Distant Cousin The 1st Microbe 3 Billions + Years Back. -------

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4. Biology is about to undermine much of that

DNA tracing is going to radically change much of what we believed we knew about our anthropological past. Migration patterns and even any attempt to define various tribes and peoples will be exposed for just how arbitrary and difficult it is. Without naming them, there are many cultures with very strong connections to their own cultural histories which are often reliant upon a great amount of "oral history". Unfortunately over time we've found much of that to be fraught with inaccuracies and misconceptions.