I assume they are planning on subsidizing dna tests for various regions of the globe. Having a significantly higher number of participants from wealthier nations (that have individuals w/ $100 disposable income) would potentialy skew the results.
-matt On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Halcrow wrote: > News just came out... > > IBM and National Geographic are teaming up in a massive effort to map > the human geneology and migratory patterns by analyzing hundreds of > thousands of DNA samples across the world. This is arguably the most > ambitious "genetic anthropology" research initiative in history: > > http://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/ > > I'll be participating on this study. It costs about $100 and involved > a painless DNA swab: > > http://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/participate.html > > Mike > .___________________________________________________________________. > Michael A. Halcrow > Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center > GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
