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Created and led by project director Spencer Wells in 2005, the Genographic Project was a privately funded, not-for-profit collaboration between the National Geographic Society, IBM and the Waitt Foundation. [4] Field researchers at eleven regional centers around the world began by collecting DNA samples from indigenous populations. Since the ...
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The project has drawn comparison with the failed Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) from the 1990s, which ended after a range of controversies emerged about how the DNA information would be managed. This statement contradicts the HGDP article which does not indicate the the project has been terminated or has not produced any results.
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Spencer Wells [1] (born April 6, 1969) is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur.He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan.Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and is the founder and executive director of personal genomics nonprofit The Insitome Institute.
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa.
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