2025-04-26
30 分钟This is Planet Money, from NPR.
A few weeks ago, I hopped onto a video call with a very special friend of the show.
Just introduce yourself.
Who are you?
Who am I?
Oh, come on.
I'm your auntie.
This is my Aunt Vovi.
I called her up to talk about an experience she had a few years ago with the genetics testing company 23andMe.
Vovey is a lifelong learner.
She loves anthropology and the story of human migration.
So back in 2017, when 23andMe was all the rage, she was interested.
She thought that taking one of their tests might reveal how she fit into the evolutionary sweep of human history.
So was part of the interest about using 23andMe about...
Belonging.
Maybe belonging to a much larger collective.
Aunt Vovee knew our family had been in Afghanistan for the last few hundred years.
But she also wondered
if this test might reveal the migration route our ancestors had taken out of Africa.
She wondered