Am I Really Ten-Percent Swedish?

What do those DNA ancestry tests mean, exactly?

Rosie Alderson, PhD
Everyday Science
Published in
6 min readAug 2, 2022

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Fairly recently, I wrote an article about cilantro. Actually, more specifically, I wrote about the genetic basis for its divisiveness.

To cut a long (but interesting) story short: some people have differences in their DNA which means coriander tastes like soap (or, for some people in my family, like tin…

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Rosie Alderson, PhD
Everyday Science

(Hungry) Science Nerd: educator, writer and general foodie.