DNA Study Traces Ancient Ancestry Of Europeans

CNN.com ^ | 11-10-2000

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four out of five men in Europe share a common male ancestor who lived as a hunter on a wild continent some 40,000 years ago, researchers say.

In a study appearing Friday in the journal Science, researchers say an analysis of a pattern found in the Y chromosome taken from 1,007 men from 25 places in Europe shows that about 80 percent of Europeans arose from the Paleolithic people who first migrated to Europe.

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Ping.

[farmfriend]

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[cyborg]

http://www.ancestrybydna.com/

[buffyt]

I think I go back to Aphrodite and Cleopatra....
If not, I do not want to know.... LOL

[commish]

Four out of five men in Europe share a common male ancestor

Now that is what I call the father of a country. ;-)

[buffyt]

When the glaciers melted, about 16,000 years ago, the Paleolithic tribes resettled the rest of Europe....

George Bush's fault, early globull warming...

[commish]

What did Dubya know and when did he know it?

[Unam Sanctam]

About 8,000 years ago, said Underhill, a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East, bringing with them a new Y chromosome pattern and a new way of life: agriculture. About 20 percent of Europeans now have the Y chromosome pattern from this migration, he said.

I wonder if these are the Indo-Europeans. If so, they imposed their language on the indigenous peoples. Perhaps everyone in Europe spoke an early version of Basque prior to that.

[Dinsdale]

It was'nt me. I never even met the young lady.

[maro]

My thought exactly. Does anyone know what the distribution of the 20% gene is?

[cyborg]

As long as I'm not related to Effing Kerry or Al Sharpton I'm fine.

[elli1]

Does anyone know what the distribution of the 20% gene is?

The last paragraph in the article attributes the 20% to a secondary migration from the Middle East.

I'm curious to learn if this type of DNA testing has been applied to testing the ''out of Africa'' theory.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Four out of five men in Europe share a common male ancestor who lived as a hunter on a wild continent some 40,000 years ago, researchers say.

Oh?

Granting that the law of averages is on their side, (hunter being the most common male occupation in a hunter/gather society) there is still no way that they can state his occupation with such certainty.

Maybe he was a shaman and while all the hunter were out he was making woo-woo with the women folks.

Speculation in science is fine. When stated as fact, not fine.

Still all in all a very interesting finding. I wonder where the other 20% came from.

[blam]

" Perhaps everyone in Europe spoke an early version of Basque prior to that."

That's my suspicions too.

[maro]

What I mean is, is there a north/south bias in the 20% gene, or an east/west bias, or some other distributional pattern that could be connected to a historical hypothesis? My own guess is that the 20% gene is spread very evenly, because the Middle Easterners became Indo-Europeans in the Ukraine staging area, and were already a hybrid group when they started conquering Europe. But I welcome anyone with facts.

[Charles Henrickson]

Four out of five men in Europe share a common male ancestor. . . .

Five out of five men on Earth share two common male ancestors, Noah and, before him, Adam.

[blam]

""I wonder where the other 20% came from."

It may be the 20% mentioned below.

"About 8,000 years ago, said Underhill, a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East, bringing with them a new Y chromosome pattern and a new way of life: agriculture. About 20 percent of Europeans now have the Y chromosome pattern from this migration, he said.

[blam]

This map was originally published in JP Malloy and Victor Mair's excellent book, The Tarim Mummies

[blam]

"I'm curious to learn if this type of DNA testing has been applied to testing the ''out of Africa'' theory."

Gene Study Identifies Five Human Populations