The Human Family Tree

After taking my boys to view the Race Exhibit at Discover Place last Friday we watched a Discovery Channel documentary through Netflix called, The Human Family Tree. This documentary explores how all humans are 99.9% the same and how we all originated from South East Africa. Wild! I love learning how an African American man has more genetic markers in common with his European ancestors than with his African ancestors or how a Thai couple don’t have many genetic markers in common at all. This project studied the DNA of hundreds of random people at a festival in Queens NY. The strangest thing was the most unlikely people had the most in common. We are all human and this fact alone should unite our species and keep us all bonded together. Society has used the many variations found in humans to build barriers and cause turmoil and war. As a world today we stand divided and I hope that more research and projects like this can open eyes and minds to create a more tolerant people.