ANT 111 Week 1 Assignment

ANT 111  Week 1 Assignment | Colorado Community College Online

THE GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT

OVERVIEW

Since its launch in 2005, National Geographic’s Genographic Project has used advanced DNA analysis and worked with indigenous communities to help answer fundamental questions about where humans originated and how we came to populate the Earth.

OBJECTIVES

• Explain the meaning of culture and it's relation to evolution.
• Identify the concepts of biological anthropology and the basic premises of and questions examined by biological anthropology.  

INSTRUCTIONS

Watch the video below:

Answer the following questions:

1. What, in your opinion, would explain why people from different cultures treat other people differently when our genetic makeup (99.9%) is basically the same?
2. How could the evidence that humans are all related affect the ways people from different cultures treat one another? Or, do you think it would make a difference?
3. Could this evidence lead to better relationships among different governments? Explain.
4. What does this evidence mean to you?
5. Read the quote below, from Dr. Spencer Wells, Genographic Project lead scientist. What does Dr. Wells mean by “old-fashioned concepts of race”? What does it mean to you?
   "You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations. Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong."                                                                                                                                                           

Submit your answers, at least 5 paragraphs, to the appropriate assignment folder after proofreading your work AND making sure you have met the rubric requirements. You may use a question/answer format.