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Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969 in Georgia, United States) is a geneticist and anthropologist, and an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule A geneticist is a scientist who studies Genetics, the science of Heredity and variation of Organisms A geneticist can be employed as a researcher Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural He leads The Genographic Project. The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing

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Education

Wells grew up in Lubbock, Texas and started college at age 16.

Work

Wells did his Ph. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the D. work under Richard Lewontin, and later did postdoctoral research with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Sir Walter Bodmer. Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American Evolutionary biologist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born January 25, 1922) is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Sir Walter Bodmer (born 1936 is a German -born British human geneticist. His work, which has helped to establish the critical role played by Central Asia in the peopling of the world, has been published in journals such as Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south Science is the Academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious Scientific The American Journal of Human Genetics is a leading Journal in the field of human Genetics. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually referred to as PNAS, is the official journal of the United

He wrote the book The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2002), which explains how genetic data has been used to trace human migrations over the past 50,000 years, when modern humans first migrated outside of Africa. The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey is the Book by Spencer Wells, an American Geneticist and Anthropologist, in which According to Wells, one group took a southern route and populated southern India and southeast Asia, then Australia. The other group, accounting for 90% of the world's non-African population (some 5 billion people as of late 2006), took a northern route, eventually peopling most of Eurasia (largely displacing the aboriginals in southern India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia in the process), North Africa and the Americas. Wells also wrote and presented the PBS/National Geographic documentary of the same name. By analyzing DNA from people in all regions of the world, Wells has concluded that all humans alive today are descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 - 90,000 years ago, a man also known as Y-chromosomal Adam. In human Genetics, Y-chromosomal Adam ( Y- MRCA) is the patrilineal Human Most recent common ancestor (MRCA from whom all [1]

Since 2005, Wells has headed The Genographic Project, undertaken by the National Geographic Society, IBM and the Waitt Family Foundation, which will add to our knowledge of human history by analyzing DNA samples from around the world, thereby creating a picture of how our ancestors populated the planet. The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology

Personal

Wells lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, documentary filmmaker Pamela Caragol Wells. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D He has two daughters from a previous marriage.

Awards

Books

Films

References

  1. ^ Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree

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The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic Scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI is a United States Non-profit medical Research institute based in Chevy Chase Maryland The Alfred P Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic Non-profit organization in the United States. CINE is a Consortium formulated to depict American life and thought realistically for a global audience The Explorers Club was founded in New York, NY in 1904 The club as explained in its charter was formed to further general Exploration, to spread knowledge of the The Kistler Prize (created 1999 is awarded annually to recognize original contributions "to the understanding of the connection between human heredity and human society" and The Journey of Man A Genetic Odyssey is the Book by Spencer Wells, an American Geneticist and Anthropologist, in which In Paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans is one of two hypotheses of the origin of anatomically modern humans Homo sapiens sapiens In human Genetics, Y-chromosomal Adam ( Y- MRCA) is the patrilineal Human Most recent common ancestor (MRCA from whom all The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing
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