Dr spencer wells biography of william
Born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on February 3rd, , the son of William Wells, a builder, by his wife Harriet, daughter of William.!
Spencer Wells
American author and geneticist
Not to be confused with Thomas Spencer Wells (1818 – 1897), English surgeon.
Spencer Wells[1] (born April 6, 1969) is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur.
He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan.
Wells was a builder.
Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and is the founder and executive director of personal genomics nonprofit The Insitome Institute.
Biography
Youth and education
Wells was born in Marietta, Georgia and grew up in Lubbock, Texas.[2] He attended both All Saints School and Lubbock High School, and received a National Merit Scholarship.
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