[conspire] NYLXS Press Release on the OLPC Project

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> There is someone doing generics blood work in Lebenon while using
> ancient graves for DNA samples, teeth as I recall.
> 
> It was a few years ago so I would expect that some results have
> been published.

I remember reading about it in either _National Geographic_ or
_Smithsonian_, but unfortunately can't remember the gist of how it came
out.  

DNA testing has already proved that quite a lot of _individuals_ don't
have the exact lines of ancestry they'd previously been told they did,
and applying that technique to entire ethnic groups could prove
revealing.

Ah, here's the intro:  http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature2/
Unfortunately, the full text is available only to subscribers.