: This same gene family also determines whether a person has wet or dry earwax.
Just as Virumandi Thevar’s DNA told a story of where we came from, modern genetics is beginning to tell the story of where we are going—towards a future where we can diagnose and treat illnesses before they even begin. : This same gene family also determines whether
When geneticists arrived to study the local population, they discovered that Virumandi possessed the —one of the oldest known human gene lines in the world. His DNA linked him directly to the first modern humans who migrated out of Africa nearly 70,000 years ago . While empires rose and fell, this specific sequence of "gene" instructions had remained virtually unchanged, passed down through dozens of millennia to a man living in the 21st century. The Secret Library Within His DNA linked him directly to the first