Look into Life

Are We All Related?

Reading articles and listening to the podcast about the Genographic Project, it made me think about what would happen if we found out more about our ancestry and how the world migrated and where the population migrated from! Sometimes, since God created Adam and Eve, this means that we are all related even in the slightest way. If this is the case, people couldn’t just have been teleported somewhere on earth to be born; we had to all migrate from somewhere! So, thinking about this question, it may be interesting to find out where we migrated from.

The technology for this project must be very advanced because analyzing DNA from so far in history is like analyzing dinosaur bones. In the participation kit which costs a quite unreasonable $99.95, you get a cheek scraper a multimedia DVD, a quick-start card and an exclusive National Geographic Genographic map. I don’t find this kit worth it and even the information that you will receive. According to the website, your DNA will receive either tests for your direct maternal ancestry or direct paternal ancestry.

It claims that the information you receive will reveal your “deep ancestry” and show migration paths that they followed originating many years ago. I do not think this information is necessary for any human because for one thing, the information will be so long ago that the must you would get is a “cool” and then “but… what’s the point?” This would be my reaction because I think that finding out our ancestry and where we migrated from has nothing to do with us. Without proof, we may as well say that IBM made the project up! However, it is true that we have very slight genes from generations long. The first time I saw these articles, I was wondering if maybe they could find out who your ancestors actually are but I guess that couldn’t happen since they don’t have files with the DNA of people thousands of years ago! I would find it really cool to see a huge family tree.

One good thing this may result in is possibly lowering the amount of prejudice to races in our world. Even these days there is still some racial comments and injustices spoken in our communities. The idea of the genographic project suggests that we all migrated from one area of the world and our ancestors could have been anywhere in over the world. This means that one may have some genes from a culture they did not respect before.

In the end, I think the idea of the Genographic project is great but the Kit and the information that they give is not really needed. The final answer to this project will be the main importance; whether we all originated from one place. So, we are all unique but would you like to find that we may all be somewhat similar? The question is yours to answer or find out!

posted by Ryan @ 6:49 AM