Spencer Wells, author of The Journey of Man, has a write up of The Genographic Project and "Out of Africa" in Vanity Fair. Nothing new or groundbreaking, but you know historical population genetics has come a long way if it's in Vanity Fair. On a related note The Genographic Project has finally yielded a major paper in PLOS Genetics. More method than meat though.
Via Eye on DNA.
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