Spencer Wells
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Spencer Wells
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| Born |
April 6, 1969 Marietta, Georgia, USA |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Genetics (biologist) |
| Alma mater |
University of Texas at Austin Harvard University |
| Notable awards | Kistler Prize (2007) |
Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969) is a geneticist, anthropologist, author, entrepreneur, adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and owner of Antone's, an iconic nightclub in Austin, Texas. He led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.
Born in Marietta, Georgia, Wells grew up in Lubbock, Texas. After graduating from All Saints School and Lubbock High School, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University between 1994 and 1998, and a research fellow at the University of Oxford between 1999 and 2000.
Wells did his Ph.D. work under Richard Lewontin, and later did postdoctoral research with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Sir Walter Bodmer. His work, which has helped to establish the critical role played by Central Asia in the peopling of the world, has been published in journals such as Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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