A couple of months ago I read an article on the IBM Intranet about the National Geographic Genographic Project , which, at the time, I had never heard of. This project, supported by IBM, has the goal to „understand the human journey „” where we came from and how we got to where we live today“ as the website tells it. The data collected „will map world migratory patterns dating back some 150,000 years and will fill in the huge gaps in our knowledge of humankind’s migratory history.“