Spitting Image

*This is a special feature from the third, Darwin themed print issue of Anthropology Now.* spitting image, spit’n’ image. Informal. exact likeness; … bef. 950; (v.) ME spitten, OE spittan; c. G (dial.) spitzen to spit; akin to OE spætan to spit, spætl spittle …. (Dictionary. com 2009). Last year, the California-based project 23andMe—a project […]