short story

Early Indians: Deconstructing DNA

Early Indians: Deconstructing DNA

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 12

There was one other thing, my DNA results told me. They provided me with a long list of people, I may be related to. My closest cousin was identified as a Fernandes, many 4th cousins were identified as Costa, Figueiredo, Barreto, Marquis, etc, but this is where it gets interesting: among my 6th and 8th cousins were a Shenvi and Pai.