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The Foundation For the Future selected geneticist, writer, and filmmaker Dr. Spencer Wells to receive the Walter P. Kistler Book Award for 2004. Dr. Wells received the award for his book The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, which, through the science of population genetics, tracks humanity’s most distant ancestors and reveals how and when the human species spread from its origin in Africa. The presentation ceremony was on March 11, 2004, at Kane Hall, on the University of Washington campus. Wells also wrote and narrated the PBS science documentary film, Journey of Man. He is a National Geographic Society Fellow and the former Head of the Population Genetics Research Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, UK. 
“Accepting the evidence at face value, the implication is that Adam lived in population groups directly ancestral to the modern San, in eastern and/or southern Africa, around 60,000 years ago. The date of the earliest modern human populations – the first of our species – remains to be assessed, and could be anywhere between 60,000 and several hundred thousand years ago.”