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Date: April 13, 2005
From: Angie Cope
Subject: National Geographic to map human genealogy
National Geographic to map human genealogy
Published: April 13, 2005, 9:01 AM PDT
By Nicholas Wade
The New York Times
A five-year project to reconstruct a genealogy of the world's populations and the migration paths of early humans from their ancestral homeland in Africa started Wednesday.
Besides tracing the routes of early human migrations, the National Geographic program will study other questions of population history like the origin of the Han Chinese, the lost homeland of the Indo-European languages and whether a genetic trail was left by the armies of Alexander the Great.
The entire story can be found here
http://news.com.com/National+Geographic+to+map+human+genealogy/2100-7337_3-5669202.html