Two very different msm articles on the same scientific report: the Washington Post notes the huge genetic diversity of African populations, and therefore the impossibility of African Americans being able to accurately genetically track their lineage (sound familiar, posthumaners?); the NYT, on the other hand (whose online version of the article is accompanied by an advertisement for The DNA Ancestry Project), strangely frames its response in terms of the possible location of the Garden of Eden. And is apparently discombobulated to discover that the origin of the species can be tracked to "the somewhat inhospitable borderland" between Angola and Namibia, which, it ascertains, "had some trees but... it also had deep sand and was not particularly garden-like." Stunning.
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