All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our http://www.ted.com African ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells talks about how his Genographic Project will use this shared DNA to figure out how we are -- in all our diversity -- truly connected.

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1. Whites are derived from Dravidian albinos (OCA2 albinism), problem solved.
2. An impressive person with quite obviously a formidable intellect ...
3. History is very important to mankind but the masses have bad memories become a STEWARD OF HISTORY we can see you are one Spencer (SOH) thank you for the info
4. I would like to know his updated facts. It would be fascinating to hear what he has to say about us being part Neanderthal and how sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal blood. 
5. The linear out of Africa hypothesis is no longer true - all non-Africans share genes with Neanderthals (and some with Denisovan) humans who left Africa 500,000 years ago.
6. Very interesting, if we were 2000 humans away from going extinct, at it's height before then how many humans were there? Like what did we drop from to 2000?
7. Good talk but there is a big hole in the research. One side, there is a group of only 2000 people who are still in stone age and don't know anything about technology. On the other hand, they were travelling all across the globe crossing all the seas, going as far as Australia.
8. I am a WASP!! or at least in the states I would be, I am part of the supreme western ruling class.. A White Anglo-Saxon Protestantt!!! Oh hang on a second!...erm my Dad was a catholic and a Spaniard who fought against Franco in the Spanish civil war..therefore a communist at one point, But my mothers family they are PURE..Up standing, middle class/upper middle class professionals and protestants..GOOD...but oh, when you start to go back generations you start to find a lot Ismaels and Joshuas on my greand fathers side of the family, they had pawn brokers in Bradford, I have a big nose...OMG FFS, I may have some Jewsih in me!! Let's go right back as far as the mitochondrial eve..(see link below.) Oh, see I am also an African. OMG, I am Paki, Jew, Somalian, a doctor..I am FUCKING SPARTACUS! (well I'm not actually fucking Spartcus, it's not my sexual orientation) Conclusion: In the words of New Model Army "Purity is virtue, purity is an angle, purity is for mad men to make fools of us all"
9. tell me who built all the pyramids around the globe and HOW
10. Damnit, I feel like that guy is a lot smarter than me, hrmpffhh!!
11. Yes, I respect people like you who really took the time and effort to learn what a subject's all about before spouting off on it. Lately I've enjoyed the lectures of Richard Dawkins on Darwin and evolution. He has also had some great debates on this subject (available on YouTube, like everything else!)....
12. Yeah i have a masters of science from a top 10 univ. So I think i can say, STFU.
13. Thanks for saying that! People who are totally ignorant about science don't deserve the right to share their stupid opinions. Get educated and then come back and talk!!!
14. every single person's dna should be collected and decoded the knowledge that would bring would be incredible it gets easier and cheaper every year
15. Gay!!!
16. SO WHEN THOSE APES BECAME HUMANS, THAT "TYPE" OF APES DISAPPEARED RIGHT? CAUSE WE DON'T SEE APES HAVING "SOON TO BE HUMANS" BABIES ANYMORE. THEY WERE "SPECIAL" MONKEYS! SO THE FACTOR IS "TIME" IF WE WERE TO LIVE 100, MILLION YEARS WE COULD SEE HUMANS DEVELOP GILLS? MAYBE MORE "SPECIAL' MONKEYS? THAT CAN VIOLATE GENETICS AND TOTALLY SWITCH SPECIES?
17. I dunno if you're trolling but i'll answer..All humans who have kids are contributing to evolution. As to how two monkeys produced a human, it's a gradual process. You didn't get a human from an ape, but through gradual series of changes. Get an education please.
18. IF WE COME FROM MONKEYS, ARE SOME PEOPLE STILL GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE? AND WHY DID EVOLUTION STOP PRETTY MUCH AT THE LEVEL THAT WE HAVE TODAY? HOW COME TWO MONKEYS PRODUCED A HUMAN? WHAT IF HUMANS WERE HUMANS RIGHT FROM THE GET GO??
19. all hue-men are africans! cc that original mf racist global warlord bankster hobama/cbc/africom etc! shame! aliciabanks.xanga.com/733047926/hobamas-africom--afri-con---the-african-american-mask-upon-the-new-world-order-inside-africa/ aliciabanks.xanga.com/733924118/%E2%80%9Csankofa%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-the-legacies-of-white-supremacy/ aliciabanks.xanga.com/769548050/selection-2012--%E2%80%9Cforward%E2%80%9D-with-the-fleecing-of-america/
20. 1 million years? Wow Coon was way off on that, lol. Coon's measurements are still valuable, but obviously his theories and major inferences are way outdated.