Genographic Project

The global societies that inhabit the Earth in today’s modern time, are theorized to all be genetically linked to a single African female, believed to have lived 60,000 years ago. This extraordinary finding has inspired a global project to unveil the migration journey of the homo sapien (Man).

The project, led by the National Geographic society, IBM, geneticist Specer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have worked at mapping the origins of Man, and his global journey through time, of his arrival into modern society. This process consists of sophisticated computer analysis of contributed DNA of traditional and general public global societies, resulting in a catastrophic attempt to unveil man’s global and genetic journey throughout time, linking the genetic differences that created today’s mankind,(National Geographic.com).

Geneticist Spencer Wells (Project Director of The Geographic Project) has teamed with Terry D. Garcia, (Executive Vice President of Mission Programs of National Geographic) to establish to help the expansion of the project. The Geographic Legacy Fund with continued contributions will embark on the continuance of empowering indigenous and traditional people on a local level, while raising awareness globally of their challenges and pressures affecting these communities, (National Geographic.com).

The Genographic mission to initiate education in cultural conservation, linguistic preservation and revitalization on a global sense is a compilation of field research, public participation, an awareness campaign, and the Genographic Legacy Project. The field research consists of a collection of blood samples of traditional, indigenous cultures that have been genetically unaltered over hundreds of generations. According to Wells, this is the key to the migratory pattern of ancient populations. The awareness program allows volunteers to track their individual genetic migratory history, as well as provides up to date scientific findings included in their website, hosted by National Geographic. The last component to the project, “the Legacy Project”, provides essential funding in field research of National Geographics 117- year long study of global cultures, (National Geographic.com).

Current findings, in one study of the Phoenicians, resulted from collected blood samples from men living in the Middle East, North Africa, southern Spain, and Malta. This extraordinary finding revealed the people were similar to groups in Syria in Jordan. Genetically, no shift in change, results in the conclusion that today’s Lebanese, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites before them, are all the same people. This study in collaboration with dozens on a global review, helped to create the “Atlas of The Human Journey”. The analysis of individual genetic groups (haplo groups), reveals the origin and lineage migration of volunteered individuals, across the globe. Each haplo group determined by specific genetic markers creates an astounding revelation in Homo sapiens ancestral history. Genetic are individual genetic markers, mapping each group’s migration across the globe. Volunteered individuals are allowed a look deep into their ancestral history, including rare evidence of what the ancient ancestor’s encountered, accomplished, ecological impacts which began the journey of mankind, (magma. National Geographic.com).

In today’s modern world, intolerance among cultural and religious groups continue to rise. The imprudent knowledge of cultural diversity, history, and origin must be spread though global awareness as to the reality of the true connection among mankind. The Genographic Project in its attempts to map our ancient journey will provide prudential explanations to the diversities among cultures. In addition, the project will help to open the prejudicial blind eye of so many individuals, by linking them to genetic variants of oppositional regions, thus creating an undeniable ancestral connection. The creation of the genetic link among the vas majority of global societies; tolerance may begin to shed a global light upon the ignorant