Thursday, May 15, 2008

Does National Geographic understand your DNA?

Human nature is inherently obsessed with its own identification. It tries to identify itself its roots, connections, origin and the reasons for creation. These associations are sometimes answered by religious confirmations, beliefs in the supernatural or predestined creation of the universe or sometimes through the evolution of the fittest race which makes us feel so proud on our powerful existence. No doubt science has made so much progress that now it can claim some of the facts in the annals of human survival on this unique planet. Interestingly with developments in science and technology the study of human past can not only be a classical anthropological study but also a huge source of revenues for entrepreneurs. National geographic team in collaboration with IBM has identified such a model where alleged 70,000 years of human history are going to be traced by using some intact DNA sequences.


---full article will be posted later