ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dark Skin, Family Reunion, Human Migration
14 Jan 2016
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New york is described as a melting pot of a population, one of the most diverse places in the world. Experiment takes place in queens, ny during a street festival by geneticist spencer welles and his team. Asking people to swab their cheeks to retrace humanity"s journey to all corners of the earth. The bigger picture is the national geographic genographic project o o. Collecting dna from 350000 people around the world. A quest to understand where we all came from, who are we, who are our ancestors. Genealogy allows us to trace our ancestors back 4-5 generations, to great-great grandparents. We are all related: we come from a small group of homosapians that lived in africa 200,000 years ago o. People didn"t leave africa for a long time, if they did, it was either forced by hard times or looking for opportunities. There is some skepticism that the bloodlines have become so intermixed that there wouldn"t be any original.
