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The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic
science. Early in the twentieth century, technological
breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern
Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's
ancient history-as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of
humankind-was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens.
Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise
K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that
scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities.
These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living
descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper
past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented
history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in
colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing
projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt
to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and
national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist
appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations,
but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific
interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.
The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic
science. Early in the twentieth century, technological
breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern
Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's
ancient history-as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of
humankind-was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens.
Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise
K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that
scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities.
These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living
descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper
past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented
history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in
colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing
projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt
to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and
national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist
appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations,
but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific
interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.
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