 Explore your own genetic journey with Dr. Spencer Wells. DNA analysis includes a depiction of your ancient ancestors and an interactive map tracing your genetic lineage around the world and through the ages. |
Travel to Grand Central Station in New York City to meet four strangers with different backgrounds who discover they are more similar and more connected than you might think.
Genetic trails left by our ancestors are leading scientists back across time in an epic discovery of human migration.
In between is a sprawling saga of survival, movement, isolation, and conquest, most of it unfolding in the silence of prehistory. Who were those first modern people in Africa? What compelled a band of their descendants to leave their home continent as little as 50,000 years ago and expand into Eurasia? What routes did they take? Did they interbreed with earlier members of the human family along the way? When and how did humans first reach the Americas?
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