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Karen Kasmauski

Members of a Jewish priesthood, called the Cohanim, pray beneath prayer shawls at Jerusalem's Western Wall. The Cohanim can all trace their lineage to a single ancestor—which is why this photo appeared in an October 1999 story about genetics.

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