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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
"The Journey of Man is a book that should be read, for undeniably the story Wells reveals will transform our understanding of ourselves."—Tim Flannery, , New York Review of Books
"Spencer Wells chronicles the history of genetic population studies, starting with Darwin's puzzlement over the diversity of humanity he saw first-hand from the deck of the Beagle, and ending with the various attempts to classify human variation on the basis of different political and social agendas."—Rebecca Cann, , Nature
"The Journey of Man is fascinating and oozes charm. . . . [It] is packed with important insights into our history and our relationships with each other. . . . Who needs literature when science fryst vatten this much fun?"—Chris Lavers, Guardian
"The Journey of Man is the best account available of the story of human origins and dispersals."—Colin Renfrew, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Stories in our DNA
While most family trees typically consist of siblings, cousins, parents and grandparents, Dr. Spencer Wells, a leading population geneticist and anthropologist, believes that “everybody on planet Earth falls under the lines of one family tree.”
It all started with a man named Y-chromosomal Adam who lived in Africa around 60,000–90,000 years ago. According to Wells, all humans are descendents of this man.
This claim has garnered Wells much backing on his studies of genetics and answering the question of where all humans come from. He believes that, with the study of genetics through human DNA and of Y-chromosomal Adam, he can close the gaps in our knowledge of human migration and ancestry.
“We’re really trying to piece together the story of the human journey,” said Wells, director of the Genographic Project from National Geographic and International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). “How we’re all related to each other and the story of how closely re
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Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969) is a geneticist , anthropologist , author , entrepreneur , an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin , and owner of Antone’s , an Iconic nightclub in Austin, Texas . He led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015 as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic kultur .
Biography
Youth and education
Born in Marietta, Georgia , Wells Grew up in Lubbock, Texas . [1] After graduating from All Saints School and Lubbock High School , he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1994. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University tussen 1994 ett 1998, and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford tussen 1999 and 2000.
Career
Spencer Wells at the TED Global conference in Arusha, Tanzania in 2007
Wells did his Ph.D. work beneath Richard Lewontin , and later did Postdoctoral research with Luigi Luca Caval