The Genographic Project began in 2005 and is a research project carried out by the National Geographic Society’s scientific team to reveal patterns of human migration. The project is carried out in ...

Correction: The Dec. 1 story “”Genome project traces human history”” misused the word “”genome”” in the headline, as The Genographic Project does not deal with genomes. The story also erroneously ...

WASHINGTON (October 30, 2008)—The Phoenicians gave the world the alphabet and a love of the color purple, and a research study published today by Genographic scientists in the American Journal of ...

I was watching the &#8220Today Show” a few days ago and it featured an interesting project co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society, IBM, the Waitt Family Foundation and geneticist Spencer ...

The National Geographic Society has announced the next phase of its Genographic Project -- the multiyear global research initiative that uses DNA to map the history of human migration. Building on ...

While I was at Spencer Wells' poster at ASHG I was primarily curious about bar plots. He's got really good spatial coverage, so I'm moderately excited about the paper (though I didn't see much ...

Robyn Williams: Still on genes, do you recall the National Geographic venture we reported over a year ago, taking swabs from people around the world to trace ancestry? Well, here's a brief update from ...

(CNN) -- "Genographic" is not showing up in many dictionaries yet. But two global institutions, IBM and the National Geographic Society, hope the idea it conveys becomes well known in every corner of ...

Have you ever tried tracing back your family tree only to get stuck at great great Grandpa Jim? Are you curious about who your ancestors were and where they might have come from? If so, you’ll ...

On April 13, 2005, the National Geographic Society and IBM announced the launch of the Genographic Project: Tracing Human Roots to a Single Origin, a controversial genetic research initiative that ...

In the first scientific publication from The Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey, we see the first attempts to answer these age-old questions. Reporting their ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I was recently (well a few months ago at ...