Dirty Greek - The Genographic Project

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Dirty Greek - The Genographic Project

Science : The Genographic Project

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This is really cool. I may even spend the $100 for a participation package.

^"The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journeywhere we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages.

The fossil record fixes human origins in Africa, but little is known about the great journey that took Homo sapiens to the far reaches of the Earth. How did we, each of us, end up where we are? Why do we appear in such a wide array of different colors and features?

Such questions are even more amazing in light of genetic evidence that we are all relateddescended from a common African ancestor who lived only 60,000 years ago.

The project will mainly be using DNA from indigenous peoples who have not interbred too much with settlers, but everyone is welcome to participate. When you send back your participation package after swabbing some cells from your cheek and your sample is examined, you can log on (anonymously) to the website and find out the history of your DNA. You can track your ancestors' steps across the world. Pretty cool.