Sponsored by New England Biolabs, Next Generation Sequencing Library and Synthetic Biology, 2014, 2024 © ROBERT BLUESTEIN Special for the Journal of Anthropology For eleven days in 1986, I traveled amongst the oldest living remnant of our earliest ancestors, the Khoisan. What I learned went far beyond the limits of my imagination. Up to 94% of human DNA worldwide can be found in the Khoisan people, making them key to tracing our ancestry. My accidental visit to this gro