ANTHROP 3PD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Genographic Project, Human Genome Diversity Project, Biological Anthropology
11 Nov 2017
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In some cases, spanning back to earlier forms of hominids. How they mutated over time and how they migrated overtime. Trying to figure out what is the identity if we don"t have recognizable factors. We can use genetics to try to figure out individual identity. Involved medical anthropologists, medical doctors that were doing fieldwork and genetic. What they aimed was collect genetic material as many human populations they could and put it in. This proved to be a lot more difficult in trying to get dna from remote groups, what were. Dna was often in the form of blood, sometimes took cheek scrapings and hair samples. The purpose is to collect dna of humans. The cells of indigenous peoples are being immortalized to provide a biological bank for genetic. For 10 years, scientists have been travelling in the least accessible parts of columbia. Soon these samples will be shared with scientists worldwide.
