DNA: The Living Record of Humanity's Journey June 16, 2011

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Dr. Spencer Wells, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, describes his work examining human origins not through skeletal records, but rather by analyzing DNA.

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Spencer Wells is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell University. He leads The Genographic Project, which is collecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from people around the world in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the planet. Dr Wells received his PhD from Harvard University and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has appeared in numerous documentary films and is the author of three books, The Journey of Man, Deep Ancestry and Pandora's Seed.