I’m a big fan of traditions. I believe traditions, for all the bad press they get, are part of the cement that holds families together in the long-term. Like many people, family traditions, especially around the holidays, were a big deal.

A new special by National Geographic set out to trace the origins of the human race using 350,000 DNA swabs, a joint project between National Geographic and IBM called the Genographic Project. The result is ‘The Human Family Tree’, which illustrates how at least 75 percent of humans came from a single man or woman in Africa tens of thousands of years ago.