Every human was a child of a child of a child of children of mysterious mothers who once lived, and whose secrets we carry. This was our genome, Bruno said. Science and technology are embattled terrain among those who reject capitalism, he acknowledged, but the new discoveries in the study of ancient DNA were stunning and consequential. They have to be dealt with, Bruno said. I am linked, he said, to ancient people not as a vague and baggy “idea” but as little pieces of string examined under an electron microscope. We have material proof, Bruno said, of transmigration, of the way in which
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