Your genome is showing.

Because it was all arranged and sponsored by the Leakey Foundation, I tailored it for an audience interested in human origins and human evolution, which felt natural considering that’s me.

Because I was slotted to speak while “NightLife” was also going on, I thought an album cover art-themed slideshow, something I’ve long wanted to do (thank you King Crimson), would be appropriate.

“Aaah! You mean 23andMe can tell all that from just my spit?”

The film of the talk is up at fora.tv, here at this link.

While I was in San Francisco I had two wonderful opportunities to visit schools, one high school and one middle school. At the high school I got to sit down for an hour and talk genetics with an evolution and genetics course! And at both schools I gave a presentation called “Your evolutionary history is showing,” part of which included a little about how science is part of everyday life, like when you want to figure out which dog ate Kevin’s book.

*I am not paid by 23andMe.  I use 23andMe at the educational rate to teach anthropology.

Careful what you ask that gene.

One last thing. Please check out my students’ reflections on their experience with 23andMe and with learning biological anthropology this semester at URI at their blog “human variation style” …http://humanvariationstyle.blogspot.com/

2012-12-13 03:23:02

Source: http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2012/12/your-genome-is-showing.html