In this cool series, we met a man in Afghanastan who is the direct descendant of the man from whom all the non-African, non-Aboriginese descended.
It was just on TV a few days ago.
Might still be available through "On Demand" services.
Documentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree
Hillary Mayell
for National Geographic News
January 21, 2003
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By analyzing DNA from people in all regions of the world, geneticist Spencer Wells has concluded that all humans alive today are descended from a single man who lived in Africa around 60,000 years ago.
Modern humans, he contends, didn't start their spread across the globe until after that time. Most archaeologists would say the exodus began 100,000 years ago—a 40,000-year discrepancy.
Wells's take on the origins of modern humans and how they came to populate the rest of the planet is bound to be controversial.
His work adds to an already crowded field of opposing hypotheses proposed by those who seek answers in "stones and bones"—archaeologists and paleoanthropologists—and those who seek them in our blood—population geneticists and molecular biologists.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021213_journeyofman.htmlJourney of Man premieres on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television station in the United States on Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 9:00 p.m. Check the PBS Web site for your local schedule.
http://www.pbs.org/