<p><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2138059" title="">John Hawks</a> has a <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2138059" title="">piece</a> in <em>Slate</em> critiquing the recent scientific genealogy trend. Congrats for John for going "mainstream," and kudos for <em>Slate</em> to contributing something substantive to the discourse. And I've noted before, most of the people taking the tests won't find out anything they don't know.... </p><div class="vert-display-toggle collapsible relative flex flex-col items-center "><div class="vert-unit mt-4 mb-3 top-20"><div ad-type="mobile-desktop" class="ad-wrapper vert min-h-boombox flex items-start justify-center" data-ad-mapping="inline" data-ad-slot="Discover/inline-ad" id="div-inline-ad-0"></div></div><span aria-label="Advertisement" class="text-ad mt-1 text-[11px] uppercase">Advertisement</span></div>

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John Hawks has a piece in Slate critiquing the recent scientific genealogy trend. Congrats for John for going "mainstream," and kudos for Slate to contributing something substantive to the discourse. And I've noted before, most of the people taking the tests won't find out anything they don't know....

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