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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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Searching for a place to call home

Wherever she’s lived, Tanya Perdikou has rarely felt at home, and numerous moves have perpetuated a sense of disconnection. But signs from nature offer powerful moments of connection.

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Seeds for the future

Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.

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  • Monro: Family Tree
  • Family tree of the Schoenberg family. Engraving by C. P. Lindemann, 1736, after A. Wernerin.
  • A family tree of skin diseases. Coloured engraving, c. 1835.
  • Family tree of the Weigert Family - showing the birth, etc of Paul Ehrlich and of his cousin Carl Weigert
  • A family tree of skin diseases. Coloured lithograph by P. Piccardi after J.L.M. Alibert.
  • A family tree of skin diseases. Coloured lithograph by P. Piccardi after J.L.M. Alibert.
  • A family group gathered under a tree welcome back a member who has perhaps been away at battle. Engraving.
  • Henri Duc de Guise has his hand trapped in a split tree trunk when the two parts of the tree are brought together, contrary to Nature; the tree representing the family tree of the kings of France, which diverges into a Valois branch and a Bourbon (Navarre) branch. Etching.
  • The Holy Family resting under a palm tree during the flight into Egypt. Engraving by F. Gregori after C. Maratta.
  • The Holy Family rest on the way to Egypt, eating from a miraculous tree. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Maratta.
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