A Wired writer had his genome scanned, and this is what he found...

Quoted: I had my genome scanned by Navigenics and 23andMe. Here's what I learned.

This is the personal dna service mentioned in my previous fave.

Quoted: Welcome to 23andMe, a web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, you can use our interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.

I may have been selective in what I quoted from this article.

Quoted: Australian research published last year found left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport.
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And French researchers concluded that being left-handed could be an advantage in hand-to-hand combat.

Quoted: Quoted: The implications were clear. There is a reason that fat people cannot stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot stay fat when they force themselves to gain weight. The body’s metabolism speeds up or slows down to keep weight within a narrow range.

Quoted: Instead of having just two copies of every gene - one from each parent - we have some genes that are multiplied several times. Furthermore these "multiple copy numbers" differ from one person to another, which could explain human physical and even mental variation.

Good documentary. He uses dna from blood samples to build a family tree for the human race. Four stars instead of five only because the narrator/scientist is a little high on himself.

Quoted: This show is so compelling and complete in its coverage of how we/man evolved and traveled out of Africa. Dr. Wells travels to Namibia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Arizona, Brazil, North Australia, and South India among other places. He incorporates interviews with other scientists to support his work - such as linguists.

Quoted: Wells also relies on a controversial theory of cognitive development that suggests that early homo sapiens may have looked like modern humans by around 100,000 years ago, but that brain development lagged far behind. According to this theory, somewhere around 60,000 years ago, there was a "great cognitive leap forward," during which the human brain became essentially modern.