The human genome project enables researchers to

The human genome project enables researchers to identify all human genes. It was a project set on determining the sequence of the chemical base pairs which make up human DNA, and identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome.

Many archeologists and anthropologists disagree with dr. thorne's view.  thorne strongly believes that what many calls "homo erectus"  was in fact  homo sapiens,  and that they migrated out of africa almost 2 million years ago and dispersed throughout europe and asia. that's way different  from what scientists have always believed about the evolution of the species.