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"In the grip of an Ice Age, the Earth's temperature dropped, locking the world's moisture into giant glaciers and bringing intense drought to Saharan Africa. As herds of thirsty animals wandered northeast off the African continent searching for water, human hunters, our ancestors, followed."

"JOURNEY OF MAN tells the remarkable story of the human journey out of Africa and into the rest of the world, tracing history through evidence uncovered in the Y-chromosome of man's DNA. Traversing six continents, the film takes viewers on a fascinating journey into the hidden world of their ancestry and offers a modern look at our ancestor's lives."

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Travelling by helicopter and army tank, Spencer Wells visited the Arctic Circle to meet the nomadic Chukchi.
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• Early Humans Began in Southern Africa, Study Suggests -- BBCNews (08 March 2011)
  
  
• Stone Tools 'Change Migration Story' -- BBC News (19 September 2010)
  
  
• Human Population: Our Brushes With Extinction -- Telegraph (03 August 2010)
  
  
• Wells, Spencer. Pandora's Seed. NY: Random House, 2010.
  • Seeds of destruction? -- Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ interview
    
    
• Malaria Threat Is as Old as Humanity, New Research Shows -- ScienceDaily (17 June 2010)
  
  
• Bottlenecks Made Humans Less Diverse -- Discovery News (23 October 2009)

• to see samples of results enter the following numbers in "Your Genographic Project Kit ID" windows
  
  
  • Tom Bacig's DNA results ID # = FWAG7649L5
    
    
  • Tim Roufs' DNA results ID # = FW35F6VQRR
    
    
• interactive atlas of the human journey
  
  
• videos
  • Journey of Man (120 min., 2003)
  • The Search for Adam (51 min., 2005)
    
    
• slides
  • Genographic Project -- Introduction
  • Genographic Project -- Roufs Results

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• Early Humans May Have Crossed Sea to Leave Africa
• Women's Traveling Ways Written in Thai Tribes' Genes
• Neandertals, Hyenas Fought for Caves, Food, Study Says
• Phoenicians
• Photo Gallery: Journey of Man
• Prehistoric Bones Point to First Modern-Human Settlement in Europe
• Global Gene Project to Trace Humanity's Migrations