Paternal DNA

[Woodbutcher]

Today I had my DNA sample taken and they will determine my haplogroup and thus my ancestral origin 50-to 100 000 years ago. I`ll find out whether I have Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestry. Or, more likely, alien DNA since I can`t breed with earthlings....

[Tero]

Well, there is hope, then! You have DNA.

[Seth]

Check this out!

Artist Reconstructs Faces Using DNA Left Behind in NYC and a 3D Printer — Considers Implications of ‘Genetic Surveillance’
Feb. 9, 2013 3:10pm Liz Klimas

There is human DNA discarded carelessly all over New York City and one artist has been picking up a little of it and making facial reconstructions of what its owner might look like. Sound creepy? Perhaps, but it’s possible to an extent and speaks of larger themes of like the potential for surveillance.

“I’ve worked with face recognition and speech recognition algorithms in the past, but I had never considered the emerging possibility of genetic surveillance; that the very things that make us human: hair, skin, saliva, become a liability as we constantly face the possibility of shedding these traces in public space, leaving artifacts which anyone could come along and mine for information,” Heather Dewey-Hagborg, a self-described information artist, wrote in a blog post introducing the concept that she has spent about a year working on.
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Pretty freaking scary.

[hadespussercats]

Check this out!

Artist Reconstructs Faces Using DNA Left Behind in NYC and a 3D Printer — Considers Implications of ‘Genetic Surveillance’
Feb. 9, 2013 3:10pm Liz Klimas

There is human DNA discarded carelessly all over New York City and one artist has been picking up a little of it and making facial reconstructions of what its owner might look like. Sound creepy? Perhaps, but it’s possible to an extent and speaks of larger themes of like the potential for surveillance.

“I’ve worked with face recognition and speech recognition algorithms in the past, but I had never considered the emerging possibility of genetic surveillance; that the very things that make us human: hair, skin, saliva, become a liability as we constantly face the possibility of shedding these traces in public space, leaving artifacts which anyone could come along and mine for information,” Heather Dewey-Hagborg, a self-described information artist, wrote in a blog post introducing the concept that she has spent about a year working on.
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Gattaca here we come.
Pretty freaking scary.