Who Are You, Where Do You Really Come From?

The Genographic project was made to discover our real roots and just how vast the human species has become. It claims that every human has ancestral roots in Africa. If that is true, then why is Africa home to all of us, in poverty? We should be helping our 'mother continent' get out of third world status. Anyways.....

This project was started in 2004 by National Geographic and IBM. Their objective is to collect DNA from diverse races across the globe. This project can also be regarded as a continuation of the failed Human Genome Diversity Project in the 1990s. This project could not have happened 25, 50, or 100 years ago because of the many computers it requires to do this project. Our technology has become so advanced that we have easier access to do this project. This is project will also help us to learn more about are DNA and all of its complexities. It would have been hard along time ago to study DNA without the technology we have now!

Anyone can participate in this project and give their DNA. The project however, has had some trouble coming along. Indigenous people contain the reliable DNA patterns that the scientists are looking for. Urbanized people have more heritage and different backgrounds, so it would be harder to trace their ancestry.

There are some suspicions that the scientists could actually use you DNA for their own experiments and agenda that is not publicly advertised, but thats another topic....

It is important that this project is started now to help Africa get out of poverty and make people care that they are Africans too. There are also other reasons that may be, but this one is the most significant one.