Brenda, It was difficult to follow the details of each case study. I'll have to watch it again to better understand each person that they studied in detail. This was the result of a 4 year study that Spencer Wells and National Geographic have done, traveling the world and getting samples from 50,000 indigenous people around the world. The total number of DNA kits used in study is 296,000. The study will conclude in 2010. Some of the DNA used in the study comes from people like myself who had their DNA studied for personal (genealogical) purposes and shared their data with National Geographic. These personal results came from cheek swabs, but their field work with indigenous populations involved blood draws because the blood is more robust and will withstand the rigors of the field better than cheek swabs. They were in a lot of very remote primitive conditions. When I heard Spencer Wells speak last March I asked him how they knew they were sampling with an indigenous group of people. He said they base that distinction on: 1) language, 2) oral history. For this special production Spencer Wells went to Queens New York and took cheek swabs from about 100 very diverse people, then analyzed their DNA (SNP's) to determine how their ancestors migrated. A black guy turned out to have y-dna (from his black father) that was European, whereas his mitochrondrial DNA (from his black mother) was African. The expanation was that one of his white European male ancestors many generations married a black lady. This guy was a male model in New York and looked very black. Needless to say he was surprised. An Arab from Turkey turned out to be Jewish on his father's side. They analyzed what they thought was an indigenous tribe in Chad in the Sahara and found that they were from Iran (I think, but it could have been another middle east country). They did this with several of the cases and then had everybody stand in central park clustered as to their points where their ancestors migrated to. A helicopter view showed these clusters of people and then using image processing they superimposed a map of the world. Finally they had each group at a time move backward along their migration route, so that eventually everybody ended up in Africa. Africa has the greatest diversity of DNA of any place in the world and this is the evidence that this was the cradle of civilization about 60,000 years ago. The bottom line was that 99.9% of all our DNA is exactly the same for all of us and we are all kin. There is no such thing as race as we were all black when we go back to our Scientific Adam and Eve in Africa. I would have like for it to have concentrated on fewer cases and gone into more details about the SNP markers and the DNA aspects, but the average person would have been lost if they had done that. David Pitts On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Brenda Minor wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm afraid I missed the program. Can you give us some of the > highlights? > > Brenda Minor > Tucson, AZ > > (at 12:30 am) > > > > --- On Mon, 8/31/09, txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise- > request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > From: txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise-request@rootsweb.com> > Subject: TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 > To: txwise@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:02 AM > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. National Geographic special tonight on genetic anthropology > using DNA (David E. Pitts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:36:51 -0500 > From: "David E. Pitts" <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: [TXWISE] National Geographic special tonight on genetic > anthropology using DNA > To: txwise@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <AD3FC458-8BDA-4A08-97A7-A1A09B5EED46@sbcglobal.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > This is a 2 hour special on the National Geographic Channel at 8 CDT > (2 hours). > I have heard Spencer Wells talk twice about the Genographic Project > and if he is involved it will be spectacular. > David Pitts > >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the TXWISE list administrator, send an email to > TXWISE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the TXWISE mailing list, send an email to > TXWISE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 > ************************************** > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/the-human-family-tree-3706/Overview#tab-Videos/07001_00 if I read this right.. it is being re broadcast. And these type programs often wind up as videos on the site? --- On Mon, 8/31/09, David E. Pitts <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: David E. Pitts <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [TXWISE] National Geographic Special on DNA To: txwise@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 6:23 AM Brenda, It was difficult to follow the details of each case study. I'll have to watch it again to better understand each person that they studied in detail. This was the result of a 4 year study that Spencer Wells and National Geographic have done, traveling the world and getting samples from 50,000 indigenous people around the world. The total number of DNA kits used in study is 296,000. The study will conclude in 2010. Some of the DNA used in the study comes from people like myself who had their DNA studied for personal (genealogical) purposes and shared their data with National Geographic. These personal results came from cheek swabs, but their field work with indigenous populations involved blood draws because the blood is more robust and will withstand the rigors of the field better than cheek swabs. They were in a lot of very remote primitive conditions. When I heard Spencer Wells speak last March I asked him how they knew they were sampling with an indigenous group of people. He said they base that distinction on: 1) language, 2) oral history. For this special production Spencer Wells went to Queens New York and took cheek swabs from about 100 very diverse people, then analyzed their DNA (SNP's) to determine how their ancestors migrated. A black guy turned out to have y-dna (from his black father) that was European, whereas his mitochrondrial DNA (from his black mother) was African. The expanation was that one of his white European male ancestors many generations married a black lady. This guy was a male model in New York and looked very black. Needless to say he was surprised. An Arab from Turkey turned out to be Jewish on his father's side. They analyzed what they thought was an indigenous tribe in Chad in the Sahara and found that they were from Iran (I think, but it could have been another middle east country). They did this with several of the cases and then had everybody stand in central park clustered as to their points where their ancestors migrated to. A helicopter view showed these clusters of people and then using image processing they superimposed a map of the world. Finally they had each group at a time move backward along their migration route, so that eventually everybody ended up in Africa. Africa has the greatest diversity of DNA of any place in the world and this is the evidence that this was the cradle of civilization about 60,000 years ago. The bottom line was that 99.9% of all our DNA is exactly the same for all of us and we are all kin. There is no such thing as race as we were all black when we go back to our Scientific Adam and Eve in Africa. I would have like for it to have concentrated on fewer cases and gone into more details about the SNP markers and the DNA aspects, but the average person would have been lost if they had done that. David Pitts On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Brenda Minor wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm afraid I missed the program. Can you give us some of the > highlights? > > Brenda Minor > Tucson, AZ > > (at 12:30 am) > > > > --- On Mon, 8/31/09, txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise- > request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > From: txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise-request@rootsweb.com> > Subject: TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 > To: txwise@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:02 AM > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. National Geographic special tonight on genetic anthropology > using DNA (David E. Pitts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:36:51 -0500 > From: "David E. Pitts" <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: [TXWISE] National Geographic special tonight on genetic > anthropology using DNA > To: txwise@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <AD3FC458-8BDA-4A08-97A7-A1A09B5EED46@sbcglobal.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > This is a 2 hour special on the National Geographic Channel at 8 CDT > (2 hours). > I have heard Spencer Wells talk twice about the Genographic Project > and if he is involved it will be spectacular. > David Pitts > >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the TXWISE list administrator, send an email to > TXWISE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the TXWISE mailing list, send an email to > TXWISE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 > ************************************** > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Thank You David for your information- I just have regular dish and tried to get it-- but didn't have NG on the list Really thank you- Dorothy-- Decatur, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Pitts" <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> To: <txwise@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 6:23 AM Subject: [TXWISE] National Geographic Special on DNA > Brenda, > It was difficult to follow the details of each case study. I'll have > to watch it again to better understand each person that they studied > in detail. This was the result of a 4 year study that Spencer Wells > and National Geographic have done, traveling the world and getting > samples from 50,000 indigenous people around the world. > The total number of DNA kits used in study is 296,000. The study > will conclude in 2010. Some > of the DNA used in the study comes from people like myself who had > their DNA > studied for personal (genealogical) purposes and shared their data > with National Geographic. > These personal results came from cheek swabs, but their field work > with indigenous populations involved > blood draws because the blood is more robust and will withstand the > rigors of the field > better than cheek swabs. They were in a lot of very remote primitive > conditions. > > When I heard Spencer Wells speak last March I asked him how they knew > they were sampling > with an indigenous group of people. He said they base that > distinction on: 1) language, 2) oral history. > > For this special production Spencer Wells went to Queens New York and > took cheek swabs from about 100 very diverse people, then analyzed > their DNA (SNP's) to determine how their ancestors migrated. A black > guy turned out to have y-dna (from his black father) that was > European, whereas his mitochrondrial DNA (from his black mother) was > African. The expanation was that one of his white European male > ancestors many generations married a black lady. This guy was a male > model in New York and looked very black. Needless to > say he was surprised. An Arab from Turkey turned out to be Jewish on > his father's side. > > They analyzed what they thought was an indigenous tribe in Chad in > the Sahara and > found that they were from Iran (I think, but it could have been > another middle east country). > > They did this with several of the cases and then had everybody stand > in central park > clustered as to their points where their ancestors migrated to. A > helicopter view showed > these clusters of people and then using image processing they > superimposed a map > of the world. Finally they had each group at a time move backward > along their migration > route, so that eventually everybody ended up in Africa. Africa has > the greatest diversity > of DNA of any place in the world and this is the evidence that this > was the cradle of civilization > about 60,000 years ago. The bottom line was that 99.9% of all our > DNA is exactly the > same for all of us and we are all kin. There is no such thing as > race as we were all black > when we go back to our Scientific Adam and Eve in Africa. > > I would have like for it to have concentrated on fewer cases and gone > into more > details about the SNP markers and the DNA aspects, but the average > person > would have been lost if they had done that. > > David Pitts > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:30 AM, Brenda Minor wrote: > >> Hi David, >> >> I'm afraid I missed the program. Can you give us some of the >> highlights? >> >> Brenda Minor >> Tucson, AZ >> >> (at 12:30 am) >> >> >> >> --- On Mon, 8/31/09, txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise- >> request@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >> >> From: txwise-request@rootsweb.com <txwise-request@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 >> To: txwise@rootsweb.com >> Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 12:02 AM >> >> >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. National Geographic special tonight on genetic anthropology >> using DNA (David E. Pitts) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:36:51 -0500 >> From: "David E. Pitts" <pitts-gen-281@sbcglobal.net> >> Subject: [TXWISE] National Geographic special tonight on genetic >> anthropology using DNA >> To: txwise@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <AD3FC458-8BDA-4A08-97A7-A1A09B5EED46@sbcglobal.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed >> >> This is a 2 hour special on the National Geographic Channel at 8 CDT >> (2 hours). >> I have heard Spencer Wells talk twice about the Genographic Project >> and if he is involved it will be spectacular. >> David Pitts >> >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the TXWISE list administrator, send an email to >> TXWISE-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the TXWISE mailing list, send an email to >> TXWISE@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- >> request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of TXWISE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 125 >> ************************************** >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message
Here is a link to the DVD. http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/241/5121/128.html