The Wellcome Collection on Easton Road, London have a great exhibition on about Indentity and DNA in a range of "subjects tackled including twins, phrenology and brain imaging, gender and sexuality, race and prejudice, and acting and improvisation."
Sections I found interesting were April Ashley, the first person in Britain to undergo gender reassignment
Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath who was obsessed with recording and measuring people's face and physical characteristics.
Alec Jeffreys' invention of DNA fingerprinting 25 years ago
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