Monday, November 2, 2009

The movie we watched in class last thursday was about tracing the paths of human populations out of Africa. It showed us that we all come from the first human who was from Africa. National Geographic took DNA samples from a large number of people from Queens, New York. From these DNA samples, they took the .01 % difference in different races and traced them back to the first human. Then, they showed when and what path a particular group took out of Africa to inhabit the rest of the world. They also showed how certain races are related, and where and what time they merged in history. I thought it was very interesting to see how we all are actually related from a very distant ancestor. I'd like to find out what path my ancestors took out of Africa and where they ended up.

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