More African American Lives

I watched African American Lives, finding it to be quite well done, and informative. I took some notes on some of the celebrities which were shown in the program.

Henry Louis Jr, 50%-50% European/Sub-Saharan African



Oprah Winfrey 89%-8%-3% Sub-Saharan African/Native American/East Asian



Quincy Jones 63%/34% Sub-Saharan African/European



Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot 45% European



Chris Tucker 83%/10% Sub-Saharan African/Native American (?)



Mae Jemison 13% East Asian



Whoopi Goldberg 90% Sub-Saharan African



Additionally, Mark Shriver was shown to take a 3D scan of Henry Louis, Jr's head, and it was said that he was working on correlating facial features with genetic admixture. On the minus side, the 13% "East Asian" component in Mae Jamison was explained by "Chinese laborers", rather than the more probable explanation of a difficulty in distinguishing between Native Americans and East Asians.

See also Mozart's Skull and the DNA of the famous