Radio Curious revisits a conversation about human evolution with geneticist Spencer Wells, author of the book and movie, âJourney of Man, A Genetic Odyssey.â
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor, is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
Around 60,000 years ago, a man â identical to us in all important genetic respects â lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. This is known because the secrets of human evolution are hidden in our genetic code. In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit with geneticist Spencer Wells, author of the book and movie, âJourney of Man, A Genetic Odyssey.â
Spencer Well is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., where he leads the Genographic Project, which is collecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from people around the wold in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the world. He is also a professor a Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
The book Spencer Wells recommends is âNo Logo,â by Naomi Klein.
Originally Broadcast: February 10, 2004.
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