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Spencer Wells and Lawrence Goldstone

National Geographic explorer-in-residence Spencer Wells has been leading expeditions all over the world to collect DNA samples from different human indigenous populations.  Join host Ben Kieffer as he talks with Wells about how his Genographic Project hopes to use that DNA to map how humankind populated the planet and find out how your DNA can become part of the project.  Also, author Lawrence Goldstone on his book “Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865 to 1903.”

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River