Posted AT 2:06 AM EDT on 13/04/05
Your family tree is about to grow
Spencer Wells has traced his family tree back 45,000 years, to when his ancestors left Africa for the Middle East. Generations later, at the start of the last ice age, they trekked up through the grasslands of Central Asia, veered west at the foot of the ice sheet and emerged as the first "modern" Western Europeans.
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