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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. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003. [1]
Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, 1st Baronet (3 February 1818 – 31 January 1897) was surgeon to Queen Victoria, a medical professor and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Early life [ edit ]
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 ...
Spencer Wells proposes Central Asian origins, suggesting that the distribution and age of R1a1 points to an ancient migration corresponding to the spread by the Kurgan people in their expansion from the Eurasian steppe. [15] According to Pamjav et al. (2012), R1a1a diversified in the Eurasian Steppes or the Middle East and Caucasus region:
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wells, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.Two of the creations are extinct. The Wells baronetcy of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 May 1883 for the prominent surgeon Thomas Spencer Wells. [1]
Pages in category "Wells baronets" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. Thomas Spencer ...
Thomas Spencer Wells (1818–1897), surgeon to Queen Victoria; Thomas Wells (composer) (born 1945), American composer; Thomas Wells (died 1868), first person executed privately in Britain, hanged by William Calcraft; Thomas Wells (cricketer) (1927–2001), New Zealand-born cricketer; Tom Wells (cricketer) (born 1993), English cricketer