Dawn’s Reviews > The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA > Status Update

So far, it's only covered the basics of how ancestry can be traced through DNA. And the explanations have been easy enough to understand. But he's said a few things, just a few lines within the last chapter that hit a sour note with me. It could be (probably is) a personal quirk. He called the racial percentage breakdown creepy "because it sounds like the race formulas of the Jim Crow period".

So far, it's only covered the basics of how ancestry can be traced through DNA. And the explanations have been easy enough to understand. But he's said a few things, just a few lines within the last chapter that hit a sour note with me. It could be (probably is) a personal quirk. He called the racial percentage breakdown creepy "because it sounds like the race formulas of the Jim Crow period".