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Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old
Yahoo! News | The Sideshow ^ | Thu, Mar 7, 2013 | Eric Pfeiffer

Posted on 03/08/2013 7:34:13 PM PST by haffast

DNA evidence has revealed that the oldest known common male ancestor is 340,000 years old, more than twice as old as previous estimates.

New Scientist reports that the sample comes from a recently deceased man named Albert Perry. After the African-American South Carolina man died, one of his relatives submitted a sample of his DNA to a company called Family Tree DNA for analysis.

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All previously compared DNA samples pointed to a common Y chromosome traced back to man who lived between 60,000 and 140,000 years ago. But Perry’s DNA sample broke the trend, not matching up with this common ancestor.

"It's a cool discovery," Jon Wilkins of the Ronin Institute in Montclair, N.J., told New Scientist. "We geneticists have been looking at Y chromosomes about as long as we've been looking at anything. Changing where the root of the Y-chromosome tree is at this point is extremely surprising."

After the initial tests on Perry’s DNA, geneticists at the University of Arizona conducted further tests to confirm the anomaly. The Y chromosome in Perry’s test matched up with those of 11 men who all lived in one village in Cameroon.

University of Arizona researcher Michael Hammer says Perry’s DNA suggests there may have been an earlier species of humans that went extinct—but not before interbreeding with the more modern version of man.

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TOPICS: History; Reference; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; multiregionalism; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; notoutofafrica
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To: BrandtMichaels
Or ‘we are still a long way’ from knowing just how little of what we think we know is actually true.

I'll be the first one to tell you that we barely know anything, and I'm a scientist.

41 posted on 03/09/2013 6:21:55 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Does so
Is the author suggesting there was an intermediate progenitor—to NOT include Neandertal?

What does it suggest about the history of a wrecked car when the 'car'cass is in Los Angels and in the glove box are gas station receipts from NYC, a later one from Cleveland, and a still later one from Tulsa?

Can you determine with certainty from this that the car passed through Phoenix or Las Vegas or Reno?

42 posted on 03/09/2013 7:35:59 AM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: haffast

New headline: Missing Link Discovered in South Carolina!


43 posted on 03/09/2013 7:38:25 AM PST by csmusaret (America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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To: TigersEye
There was a thread a couple of days ago about how eating too much bacon causes a 3% chance of premature death.

So this guy might have lived to 350,200 years if he had just cut back on strips of bacon.

44 posted on 03/09/2013 9:53:45 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: haffast; blam; martin_fierro

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks haffast.
After the African-American South Carolina man died, one of his relatives submitted a sample of his DNA to a company called Family Tree DNA for analysis... All previously compared DNA samples pointed to a common Y chromosome traced back to man who lived between 60,000 and 140,000 years ago. But Perry’s DNA sample broke the trend, not matching up with this common ancestor.
It means that the earlier studies suffered from severe constraints of data.

Multiregionalism ping!

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


45 posted on 03/09/2013 10:53:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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The Y chromosome in Perry’s test matched up with those of 11 men who all lived in one village in Cameroon. University of Arizona researcher Michael Hammer says Perry’s DNA suggests there may have been an earlier species of humans that went extinct...
No, it shows, once again, that the reason for apparent greater genetic variability in Africa isn't due to it being the oldest, it shows that populations are genetically narrowed by isolation.


46 posted on 03/09/2013 10:56:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

in local libraries
"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

47 posted on 03/09/2013 10:57:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
“When I was young, we had nothing but pinups of Helen Thomas. And we liked it!”

Hard times for sure.

48 posted on 03/09/2013 11:05:02 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

Bingo!


49 posted on 03/09/2013 11:05:51 AM PST by Little Bill (A)
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To: Verginius Rufus
"So this guy might have lived to 350,200 years if he had just cut back on strips of bacon. "

Bacon DNA isn't that old.

50 posted on 03/09/2013 11:07:31 AM PST by blam
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To: Verginius Rufus

There’s another view on that. He might have lived past 360k if it weren’t for all the nannies nagging him about his diet! ;^)


51 posted on 03/09/2013 12:09:17 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: PIF
No need for Aliens to explain the oddities and anomalies found in various places.

Would you believe what an alien told you anyway?

52 posted on 03/09/2013 12:15:36 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: haffast
Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old

Oh, man! And I forgot to get him a card this year...

53 posted on 03/09/2013 11:16:00 PM PST by InMemoriam
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To: blam

Difficult, maybe. Hard, probably not.


54 posted on 03/11/2013 5:47:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Shadow44
Well, isn't that what I said? Then I wondered of the significance of the 140,000 year difference between the two.
55 posted on 03/11/2013 11:15:49 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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