Recently I signed up for Geni, a family tree building website, after reading an article about it on TechCrunch.
Coincidentally, TED released a video at around the same time, which I just caught today:
This talk is by one of my favorite scientists, Spencer Wells, who wrote The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, which is also a National Geographic video.
At the end of the TED Talk, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that it’s possible to actually participate in the Genographic Project by ordering the participation kit which “will reveal your deep ancestry along a single line of direct descent (paternal or maternal) and show the migration paths they followed thousands of years ago.” Impressive.
I have added this to my list of interesting and creative gifts for holiday shopping ‘08.
