The Genographic Project
It is believed that our ancestors originated in Africa and about 60,000 years ago slowly spread through the world.
In the last couple of years National Geographic Magazine and IBM created a 5 year research project called The Genographic Project to try and trace through DNA the path’s that early man took.
The Genographic Project has recently published a report on human mitochondrial DNA data from the first 18 months of the project, published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. Most DNA is contained in the cell but separate parts of the cell called organelles (akin to organs in a body) such as Mitochondria also contain DNA. Interesting stuff.
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Posted: October 8th, 2007 under geographical, history, science, world.
Tags: dna, genographic, ibm, national geographic
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