The Family Tree Video

The Family Tree video is very interesting. The movie takes place at a street fair in New York. They chose this particular setting, because this is the country's "melting pot." All types of people diverge here. The workers gather a variety of people in order to get a variety of data. The goal is to collect samples from what appears to be totally unrelated people, so they can trace back to each one's ancestors. I really like the project. It is very interesting. The information in the video is presented very well. I don't understand, though, how a group of humans arose from one set of parents. Does that mean they were all inbred? The project has already confirmed our ancestors all started their journey in Africa. They started moving out of the area probably due to climate changes geographic happenings. The project also declares that human genes are 99% related to one another’s. It is hard to fathom that the 1% develops the differences in millions of people. Biologically, race does not exist. I think is really interesting that the color of skin has no effect on differences in genes. I really like this video.