National Geographic Channel: Explorer: Explorer: Search for Adam: "POSTED June 16, 2005
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Photo: Spencer Wells takes a DNA sample
Analyzing DNA from the cheek cells of a group of Mongolians enabled geneticist Spencer Wells, an Explorer-In-Residence at the National Geographic Society, to figure out whether they were indeed descendants of the notorious warrior who lived 800 years ago and thousands of miles away. Such exotic historical enigmas are daily fodder for Wells who is in the midst of the Genographic Project (GP)—a massive undertaking to sample human DNA from around the world to illuminate human genetic and migratory history.
“There is a history book in your DNA [that reveals] how people are related to each other all over the planet and how we have moved around,” says Wells."
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