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Living Human Genetically Linked to 338,000 Year Old Ancester

An African American male currently living in South Carolina has been genetically linked to a 338,000 year old pre-modern human. The genetic link was made by determining a match between the Y (male) chromosomes of the two. The oldest modern humans go back no more than 200,000 years. It appears that theists will have even more explaining to do now in their attempt to establish that modern humans didn't evolve from lower forms of animals. Per the article:

A miniscule bit of DNA from an African American man now living in South Carolina has been traced back 338,000 years, according to a new study. The man’s Y chromosome — a hereditary factor determining male sex — has a history that’s so old, it even predates the age of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, according to the report, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The fellow’s chromosome turned out to carry a rare mutation, which researchers matched to a similar chromosome in the Mbo, a population living in a tiny area of western Cameroon in sub-Saharan Africa. “Our analysis indicates this lineage diverged from previously known Y chromosomes about 338,000 ago, a time when anatomically modern humans had not yet evolved,” Michael Hammer, who worked on the study, said in a press release.

http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/african-american-earliest-...

Tags: Evolution, Humans, Jubinsky

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Permalink Reply by Napoleon Bonaparte on March 8, 2013 at 12:18am

What do you mean Chris ?

Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on March 8, 2013 at 1:21am

Just what I said: time to celebrate that we and the other animals are all family.

Permalink Reply by Napoleon Bonaparte on March 8, 2013 at 1:27am

Thanks. I like it. I've been up all night so it's time to sleep for me.

Permalink Reply by Chris Breman on March 8, 2013 at 1:35am

Have a nice night brother.

Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on March 9, 2013 at 5:10pm

The Unintelligent supporters of Intelligent Design will find new ways to question every new scientific discovery that threatens their faith.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on March 9, 2013 at 5:39pm

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Permalink Reply by Joseph P on March 9, 2013 at 6:27pm

Wait, what? What's with the weird formatting in that message? You having problems with your account getting hacked or something, Joan?

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on March 13, 2013 at 2:53am

I have been having problems getting messages through to Madhukar and so copied it over to this spot. The = are line end markers from the copy.

Also, far too many times I don't get the formatting menu: "Link, photo, movie, T, B, etc.)

Do you share any of these problems? Don't know if it is my computer, or A/N.

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on March 13, 2013 at 3:17am

I am really puzzled why fundamentalists promote Intelligent Design. There is no support for their claims. I watched a couple of debates by Lawrence Krauss and Michael Shermer debating believers who just make no sense.

"Science Refutes God" Debate [FULL] - Intelligence Squared U.S.

Permalink Reply by Dr. Terence Meaden on March 10, 2013 at 10:13am

This is perhaps off subject but I thought it worth expressing while in my mind.

In an article I read this week headed "Scientists question the accuracy promised by DNA sampling", Prof Steve Jones wrote "If I get a white European to shake hands with the person next to them, there is about a 30% probability that they are talking to their seventh or eighteenth cousin. The common ancestor of everyone alive today lived something like 3,500 years ago. So you are not saying anything when you have your DNA test done and find out you are descended from Romans. Everybody is."

By the way, my DNA haplogroup is I1b2a. Is any reader's DNA close to this?

Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on March 11, 2013 at 5:17pm

I had both sides tested by National Geographic. It gives you a series of markers associated with narratives and corresponding places on a map. Your final marker is what it calls your haplogroup. My father's side was P37.2. They survived the ice age in the Balkans and migrated north toward Scandinavia. On the way some moved east through Ukraine. My father's side was a Ukrainian people that migrated to Austria. 57% of Balkan men carry P37.2. whereas 7% of Polish men carry it.

National Geographic called my mother's haplogroup simply H. Again, H was the last marker in a series of markers for her. It is supposed to be associated with high technology cultures and is very heavily western European. My mother's side was Italian.

According to NG my ancestors on both sides were among the first modern humans to leave Africa. I plan to have NG test me again with a new procedure that, among other things, will reveal how much Neanderthal and Denisovan I have in me. In that my ancestors were among the first to leave I indeed might have some.

You can look at what NG is doing if you visit the group, DNA Tested Nonbelievers, of which you are a member. In the material NG is saying that, as opposed to the 3,500 year figure, the most recent common male ancestor of everybody lived 140,000 years ago and the most recent common female ancestor of everybody lived 180,000 years ago. Professor Jones might be off a little bit.

Permalink Reply by Dr. Terence Meaden on March 11, 2013 at 5:58pm

Hello John.

Please forgive the briefest of replies as I am overwhelmed with academic work now. On my mother's side I am U5, common to those in and from the Ukrainian climate refuge of the last Ice Age---following which migration north then west took hunter-gatherers to western Europe and a walk into peninsular Britain (before the land bridge broke around 6500 BC). Same haplogroup as the Cheddar skeleton of 10,000 years ago and a teacher born and bred in Cheddar called Adrian Targett. My father's side I1b2a could well be from the Mediterranean north-coastal refuge where fairly common. Fairly common too in Britain possibly due to early hunter gatherer immigration following the herds before 6500 BC.