Ghosts in Your DNA

The Box of Oddities by John Elliott and Kat Walls

Sep 16, 202631:24Comedy

There are ghosts in your DNA—entire lost populations whose names, languages, and worlds vanished, yet whose genetic fingerprints are still moving through people alive today. Then: the deeply unsettling truth about seeds...

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