[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pharmboy. "It was denounced by some cultural anthropologists, who said that looking for genetic differences among populations was tantamount to racism." I think the study is not going to be useful, but it isn't racist.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks:

Tracing Humanity's Genetic Roots

The Genographic Project, a National Geographic Society-IBM alliance, is the first to map our ancestors' migration, using cells the public submits

Nick D'Onofrio has always been proud of his Italian heritage. The IBM ( ) senior vice-president of technology is a second-generation American, and his grandparents came from the boot south of Rome. So he was shocked when he learned in February that his ancestry stretched back to the Middle East's Fertile Crescent. "Nobody was more flabbergasted than me at the news," says D'Onofrio. "I said, 'What? I'm Italian!'"..................

More at the Link.

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