The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...

Using human genomes, researchers have developed a massive family tree identifying nearly 27 million ancestors dating back more than 100,000 years ago. A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes ...

IN the report on the scientific meeting of the Royal Dublin Society on November 20, in NATURE of December 5, 1895, it is stated that I placed Pithecanthropus in the genealogical tree, drawn by Prof.