Quotes by Spencer Wells

“This is a giant leap forward for field expeditions everywhere,”

“IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.”

“Genetics, I think, resoundingly has answered the question of where we ultimately came from, we came out of Africa. And we came out quite recently, within the last 50 or 60 thousand years,”

“But the question of how we migrated around the planet, how we populated the world, in effect, is still an open one.”

“And the goal is to sample DNA from people all over the world, both indigenous populations and the general public,”

“We want everybody to have a chance to participate in this, because it is really the story of all of us, thats what we are trying to figure out.”

“So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology,”

“So it really is a synthetic effort to understand our common past.”

“The project is to focus on reconstructing how humans moved around the world, to tell of their migratory routes,”

“With the Toubou we are hoping to find out who were the first people to settle in the Sahara,”

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