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A conversation with Spencer Wells about DNA
with Spencer Wells on Jan 23, 2006
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with Spencer Wells on Jan 23, 2006
Spencer Wells is a geneticist and anthropologist, and an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He leads The Genographic Project, which seeks to add to our knowledge of human history by analyzing DNA samples from around the world, thereby creating a picture of how our ancestors populated the planet
His work, which has helped to establish the critical role played by Central Asia in the peopling of the world, has been published in journals such as Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He wrote the acclaimed book “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey” (2002), which explains how genetic data has been used to trace human migrations over the past 50,000 years, when modern humans first migrated outside of Africa.
