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Book Review: ‘Ancestor Trouble’ by Maud Newton

We dive as deep into history, science, and spirituality as we delve into Newton’s family tree. Genealogical research becomes the research of his own genealogy, a subject full of hypotheses, and a perpetual social aspiration he calls “ancestral hunger.” Newton ponders epigenetics, neuroscience, genograms, forced sterilization, kinship, spiritual practices, and “deeper connections, deeper questions” of …

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Fossil Name of Vampire Squid’s Oldest Ancestor Named Biden

Dr. “It’s preserved exactly the same size, the same age, the same place, the same proportions, and just slightly differently,” Klug said. Not involved in the research, Dr. Clements said the new paper relies heavily on visual analysis methods and that these questions can be resolved with chemical analysis. Noting that these techniques can be …

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What Should I Do With My Portrait of an Ancestor Who Owned a Slave?

Your story reminds me that one of my names, Akroma-Ampim, connected me with an illustrious 18th-century ancestor, the Asante general who now took his share of prisoners of war in Ghana. Some were sentenced to forced labor in agricultural settlements; others were most likely sold into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. If I could display a …

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