Law Protects Genetic Secrets History Would Rather Let Lie

From Scientific American:

When our ancient ancestors migrated out of Africa and throughout the rest of the world, telltale variations in the DNA of the people who settled along the way marked their passage. Today anthropologists and molecular biologists of the Genographic Project, sponsored by the National Geographic Society and others, seek to reconstruct the forgotten migration routes by looking for those genetic "footprints," as senior writer Gary Stix relates in his article "The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins Across the Continents".The unwillingness of many indigenous groups in Australia, the Americas and elsewhere to submit DNA samples has hindered progress, however.

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