Journal Entry #4

In partnership with IBM, National Geographic has taken on a project that would change the world. Together and with the help of many scientific experts, they will find they true answers to where we have come from and how did wew get here. This project is titled "The Genographic Project". The Genograaphic project is a project that involves world wide participation. Scientists have been placed around the world where they will encounter indigenious groups of people trying to find an answer to their question. They will do this by taking a sample of DNA from people from these groups hoping to find an answer. They would also need as many samples of DNA from people around the world so that they may build a family tree of sorts so that we may trace our exsistence back to the beginning. Scientists belive that when DNA is manipulated throught the life cycle, many change while others stay the same. If they could find those strands that stay the same between us and the many other people around the world, they will be one step closer to finding out this mystery. This project has just come to par with us because now, we have the right advancments in technology to accomplish a feat such as this. This has also come under great timing because with the world now mixing and the indigenious groups of people diminishing, scientists have to work fast if they hope to get the answers they want. Without the indigenious groups, we would have none or a very little to start from. So in conclusion, this project in my mind is a great idea that should be monitored more seriously by the general public because I believe you don't really know who you are unless you know where you came from.