David Reich tells me that he draws a sense of global kinship from his work on genetics. “I have a personal way in which genetics is meaningful to me which doesn’t involve my own ancestry,” he says quietly. “I think that one way of relating to the findings about genetics is that we’re all related to each other, and we are all part of a broadly closely related group of people over the last couple of hundred thousand years, with a lot of complexity, and with a lot of mixtures and migrations and reticulations. And we’re all part of that.”
