Saturday, August 30, 2025

Un-genographics

The first time I had my DNA analyzed, it was done through the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project.  The head of the project, Spencer Wells, was quoted somewhere about the mixing of populations so that particular human traits are getting less and less connected to specific geographic locations.  So now, we have people of widely varying backgrounds and heritage all over the globe.  He said that migration, air and ship travel had disconnected locations from particular genealogy and from physical traits. The Genographic Project closed down in 2019.