National Geographic Society and IBM teamed up together to find the journey of Human beings and find where it all started. The project was called The Genographic Project they went to the 30th Street Festival of July 2008. Walking around getting cheek swabs from the gums in there mouth. They focus on the Y chromosome passed down through everyman ever born, the Mitochondial Dna that was passed down from women. They found that 200,000 years ago we Started in East Africa. We were born from "Cavemen" slowly and uncertainly evolving into Homosapien. Homosapien is the Latin name (Genus) of humans, it means wise man. We were complex while life was basic live and reproduce. However there is only one tiny chromosone that depicts the sex of a person.
During the festival 193 people were swabbed and found that they represent the major migrations across the globe. The only lineage missing was the oldest which was found in a Khoisan hunter gatherer in South Africa. Which about 100,000 years ago diverged from modern humans. Many unmixed cultures are rare most populations like queens have been mixing DNA for centuries. Most race in the future will disapear with all DNA reproducing and with overpopulation. Some many people reproduce with people from different races that the Y chromosome will reproduce with more and more just like it. Earasing race, color and most physical differences.
This was based on the article in National Geographic September 2009.
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