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Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like “Who am I?” and “Where did I come from?” Welcome to the age of home genetic testing.     In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications. She explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA, and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe, all while tracing the story of one woman, her unusual results, and a relentless methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic detective story. 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Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your  ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report  could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of  identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, an incessant desire to find  answers to questions at the core of your being, like “Who am I?” and  “Where did I come from?” Welcome to the age of home genetic testing.       In The Lost Family, journalist  Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast  social experiment with little understanding of the ramifications.  Copeland explores the culture of genealogy buffs, the science of DNA,  and the business of companies like Ancestry and 23andMe, all while  tracing the story of one woman, her unusual results, and a relentless  methodical drive for answers that becomes a thoroughly modern genetic  detective story.      The Lost Family delves into the many  lives that have been irrevocably changed by home DNA tests—a technology  that represents the end of family secrets. There are the adoptees who’ve  used the tests to find their birth parents; donor-conceived adults who  suddenly discover they have more than fifty siblings; hundreds of  thousands of Americans who discover their fathers aren’t biologically  related to them, a phenomenon so common it is known as a “non-paternity  event”; and individuals who are left to grapple with their conceptions  of race and ethnicity when their true ancestral histories are  discovered. Throughout these accounts, Copeland explores the impulse  toward genetic essentialism and raises the question of how much our  genes should get to tell us about who we are. With more than thirty  million people having undergone home DNA testing, the answer to that  question is more important than ever.       Gripping and masterfully told, The Lost Family is a spectacular book on a big, timely subject.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50029421691153,"sku":"CIN1419747932G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50107404550417,"sku":"GOR011918017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50405874827537,"sku":"CIN1419747932VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52394064675089,"sku":"NGR9781419747939","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52395717001489,"sku":"NIN9781419747939","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1419747932.jpg?v=1770718046"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-libby-copeland.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}