life Wells is married to Holly Morse, and the two have lived in Lombok, Indonesia since 2020. He was previously married to Trendell Thompson (1998-2005), with whom he has two children, Sasha Thompson-Wells and Margot Thompson-Wells; and Pamela Caragol Wells (2005-2015). Awards and honors National Merit Scholar Phi Beta Kappa Fellow of the Explorers Club National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Kistler Prize Outstanding Young Texas Ex Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professorship, Cornell University Director of the Texas Lyceum Distinguished Alumnus, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin Books The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, 2002 (Penguin, UK; Princeton University Press and Random House, US; Fischer Verlag, Germany; Longanesi, Italy; Oceano, Spain/Latin America; Ucila International, Slovenia; Dokoran, Czech Republic; Akkord, Hungary; Oriental Press, China; Basilico, Japan; ScienceBooks, Korea; Yurt, Turkey; CD Press, Romania; Alpina, Russia) Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project, 2006 (National Geographic) Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, 2010 (Random House, US; Penguin, UK; Contact, Netherlands; Codice, Italy; Eksmo, Russia; Nika Center, Ukraine; Commonwealth, Taiwan; Eulyoo, Korea; Kagaku-Dojin, Japan; Shanghai BBT, China) Films 2000 – The Difference (Channel Four, UK) 2002 – The Real King and Queen (Discovery Channel) 2003 – Journey of Man (PBS/National Geographic Channel) – CINE Golden Eagle award 2004 – Quest for the Phoenicians (PBS) 2005 – Search for Adam (National Geographic Channel) 2007 – China's Secret Mummies (National Geographic Channel) – nominated for Outstanding Historical Programming Emmy 2009 – The Human Family Tree (National Geographic Channel) – nominated for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming Emmy See also Recent single-origin hypothesis Y-chromosomal Adam The Genographic Project References External links The Genographic Project Cover article from the December 2004 issue of Discover Interview about Genghis Khan's Y-chromosome on Radiolab Interview in PLoS Genetics Interview on The Colbert Report Interview on The Daily Show Talk on personal genomics at the Frontiers Forum 2019 1969 births Living people Population geneticists American geneticists University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Recent African origin of modern humans People from Washington, D.C. Genographic Project