Genetics is not something most of the population is interested in. They might be interested in what genetics can do, but the actual nitty-gritty of the genome, and how it works, isn’t their area of interest. Genetic disease, and how the genome can go wrong, is even less so. I’m very interested in both, but I am an outlier.
What does this have to do with unidentified people? Well, when an unidentified victim turns up dead in a river, and there’s one very unusual feature that person has that would make many geneticists take note, but one that the majority of the population wouldn’t realize was unusual at all, it may mean everything.
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