The Genographic Project is made possible through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of individual people from every corner of the globe. Participation by indigenous and traditional communities and the general public enable the important work of the Genographic Project, while entire organizations such as National Geographic, IBM and The Waitt Family Foundation have contributed innumerable personnel, knowledge and resources to this historic effort. Below are a few key members of the Genographic Project.
Dr. Spencer Wells
“Your DNA contains the greatest history book ever written”Spencer Wells is a leading population geneticist, director of the Genographic Project and a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. This scientist, author and documentary filmmaker has travelled the world in search of human populations who hold the history of humankind in their DNA. Dr. Wells enrolled at the University of Texas at age 16, where he completed his undergraduate work in three years. He pursued his PhD at Harvard University under distinguished evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin. Beginning in 1994, Wells conducted postdoctoral training at Stanford University's School of Medicine with famed geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza—known as the "father of anthropological genetics." It was there that Wells became committed to studying genetic diversity in indigenous and traditional populations and unraveling age-old mysteries about early human migration. Spencer currently lives with his wife, a documentary filmmaker, in Washington, D.C.
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