If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.

The pieces of DNA you find in the Y-chromosome don't go through the same shuffling process that other DNA undergoes, so it is easier to trace,

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?