AGRI 1005 Chapter : AGRI 1005 WA4
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Written assignment #4: the human family tree, directed by chad cohen. Agri 1005: in this film, the narrator follows geneticist, spencer wells, as he attempts to show and prove that everyone in the world came from a single man in africa approximately 60,000 years ago. He calls this man scientific adam. wells does his work out of new york, where he stands on the streets and swaps the mouths of hundreds of random people in order to gain a sample of their dna. The film focuses in on about 10 random people to show their lineage and also show how everyone in the world is connected through genetics. Wells says that of our human history took place on the continent of africa. At that point, two major groups of people migrated away to different locations such as the arabian peninsula. These two groups of people were known as the.
