Bloody Isle :The Scientist [2007-04-01]


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Bloody Isle Until recently, the best attempts at genealogic inquiry have cleaved to myth and history, both rife with imprecision. In a postgenomic era, however, one would assume that genealogy has been transformed. Modern phylogenetics offers seductive possibilities, synthesizing molecular genetics, statistics, and computation. The discipline traffics in haplotypes, but for the purposes of popularization,