Race and Genetics in Forensics — The Creation Process

Duana Fulwilley explores race in genetics applied to the workforce, in her review, “The Contemporary Synthesis.” She brings the dangers of wrongly charging innocent suspects to a crime they did not commit due to faulty ancestry testing. In 2004, Mark Shriver, a physical anthropologist, population geneticist, and AIMs expert was working to market a product with a company called DNAPrint Genomics, to allow scientists to figure out an individual’s facial morphology based on their DNA. This project eventually became marketed by Parabon Snapshot in 2014, and continues to be marketed today. The idea, was Fulwilley puts it, was to create … Continue reading Race and Genetics in Forensics — The Creation Process