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RE: Your Genetic Journey - The Genographic Project

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RE: Your Genetic Journey - The Genographic Project
by Decius at 8:41 pm EDT, Apr 14, 2005

noteworthy wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] At first glace this seems neat. For $100 you can send a DNA
] ] sample to National Geographic. They'll sequence part of it
] and
] ] line it up with a particular subgroup of African ancestors,
] ] and provide information about how those ancestors travelled
] ] across the planet.
]
] Richard Dawkins goes on at some length about this in his
] latest book. In short, he downplays the importance of
] geneaological ancestors in favor of genetic ancestry. He
] calls out for criticism a recent one-off British reality TV
] show in which selected British citizens were taken to meet
] their "ancestors" in Africa.

So, this sounds like an interesting book. Would you recommend it?

RE: Your Genetic Journey - The Genographic Project


 
 
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