Posted on 08/03/2013 6:15:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Previous genetic research has indicated the existence of two ancient modern human individuals who passed their genes along to all humans living today... "Mitochondrial Eve"... between 190,000 and 200,000 years ago, and ... "Y-chromosomal Adam", between 50,000 and 115,000 years ago.
Now, a team of researchers led by Stanford University's Carlos Bustamente and David Poznik have redefined the ranges for Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve, placing them at 120,000 to 156,000 years ago and 99,000 to 148,000 years ago, respectively. The most significant finding relates to the relative timing of their existence...
...The researchers compared Y-chromosome sequences among 69 men from nine globally distinct regions, recording 11,000 mutations that have influenced the Y chromosome over time. From this they were able to reconstruct a "Y chromosome tree" to identify a time period for the MRCA.
However, the new chromosome tree did much more than identify the overlap between Y-chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. It also revealed some previously unknown relationships that occurred among populations as humans expanded out of Africa into Eurasia...
In another similar recent study by an international team led by Paolo Francalacci and colleagues, a genetic analysis of 1,204 men from the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea identified thousands of mutations on the Y chromosome, 6,751 of which had never been documented before. Their results suggested that human paternal lineages coalesced between 180,000 and 200,000 years ago.
...it was not likely that Y-chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve lived within the same generation, nor were they the only man and woman alive at the time or the only people to have present-day descendants. They simply had DNA portions that, because of their unchanging nature, made them more detectable and traceable, while the same sequences of others have become extinct...
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
My 80yr old dad is of the generation that actually did this. If my mother is egregiously delayed somehow he'll *eventually* make a sandwich. Eventually...
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“know”.....thanks Apple.
excellent point. i was thinking along those lines but you beat me to it
Funny how science inadvertantly confirms the Bible, time and time again.
Well, we know she wasn’t making apple pie.
They probably aren’t alive today.
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HA!
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Yes, and it gets worse — the “researchers” are claiming that someone living in eastern Asia in 1500 BC is the common ancestor of everyone who met Columbus on the beach in 1492, and all those remote tribes in the Amazon who may not have been discovered to this day. Ridiculous.
We also know that this has nothing to do with Noah and his family, or any of the other survivors of the Flood.
Since the Bible doesn’t contain a word about DNA, no, in fact, this study — in which ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ lived over 150,000 years ago — hasn’t confirmed the Bible.
Thank you. Confirn is too strong, align would be more accurate.(this is in regards to the man DNA being younger than the woman DNA, as expected, see previous posts about it.)
Didn't you read the article? They both had the same first name "Mitochondrial" and different last names "Adam" and "Eve". They probably never met, but have passed their chromosomes down to everyone who lives today....
Yeah, i bet.
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