Acknowledgments	5
	Contents	7
	1: Studying Population Genetics and Belonging	8
	Situating the Book	10
	On Population Genetics	15
	On Culture	17
	On Belonging	20
	Materials	22
	Structure of the Book	24
	References	26
	2: Mitochondrial Eve and the Affective Politics of Scientific Technologies	29
	Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution	32
	The 1987 Mitochondrial Paper and Its Reception	36
	The Proto-Feminist Eve	41
	Eve’s Fall	44
	The Original Couple	47
	Eve and Adam as Affective Objects	52
	The Threat of Maternal Rebellion	56
	From Global Unity to Tribal Specificity	60
	Emerging Trajectories of Belonging	66
	References	71
	3: Imagining Origins Through Ancient Human DNA	78
	The Emergence of the Study of Ancient Human DNA	83
	From mtDNA to Nuclear DNA	88
	Narrating American Roots	92
	The Kennewick Controversy	97
	Kennewick Man’s DNA	103
	Cheddar Man as a Historical Object	107
	Competing Forms of Genetic Belonging	110
	The Affective Rhetoric of Class and Masculinity	114
	Origins Inside Us	118
	Affective Trajectories	121
	References	126
	4: Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Temporality of Belonging	136
	Temporality of Genes	139
	Queering Time	144
	Evolutionary History as Collective Memory	147
	Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Prosthetic Dynamic of Longing	151
	Longing for the Future in the Past	153
	Unfolding Temporalities, Intersecting Differences	158
	The Obamas, and the Making of Unity Through Genetic Trajectories	165
	The Many Sides of Evolutionary Temporality	171
	References	175
	5: Genetic Communities and the Boundaries of Belonging	177
	Population and Community	181
	Commercial Genetic Ancestry Tests	186
	Gendered Communities	188
	Temporal Distance, and the Making and Unmaking of Communal Boundaries	195
	Continental Genes, Transcontinental Migrations	199
	Constructing Finnish Genetic Inheritance	203
	Ambiguous Communities	208
	Populations, Communities, and the Politics of Difference	213
	References	219
	6: Reflections on Methodology and Biotechnological Change	225
	The Making of Belonging Through Evolutionary Temporality	228
	Tracing Biotechnological Change	231
	Index	235