ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Genetic Marker, Y Chromosome, Unthinkable
13 Dec 2018
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Spencer wells: the journey of man- genetic odyssey: for the past 15 years scientists have been using cutting edge technology to delve into your distant past, and discovered something incredible. Information comes from blood, to many people it represents the essence of blood. Inside this tiny crimson drop, journey of our species: time machine, hidden in our genes, spencer wells, geneticist, young researcher, down here in venice, name is lucca, first man to infer blood could be used. I work with dna, our very own manual of life, orchestrating our life processes: dna is a ladder of just four linked molecules, strung together in pairs in an incredibly long and complex sequence. If laid out, would stretch to moon and back 3000 times. Richard klein thinks it"s a miracle mankind survived at all. Marker, inherited from a single man, discovered this group was second to strike out from.
