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• "Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his
  own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he
  inherits his own past."
• Francis Herbert Hedge

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• And your past is in your DNA.

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Chromosomes
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The X and Y chromosome
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• Population Genetics - The Genographic Project
• SMGF Y Chromosome DNA
• SMGF Mutation and Haplotype

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Journey of Man

• What can the Y-chromosome tell us about human
  descent?It is a historical document where tiny
  spelling mistakes, mutations, tell of us our
  past.

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• If two people share a change, then they share an
  ancestor.
• By looking at mutations we find that ultimately
  all of us share a common ancestor.
• male line, (Y chromosome traces back to a common
  male ancestor for everyone alive today.
• Called Adam

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• JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World

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Where did Adam live and what did he look like?

• He lived in Africa
• 60,000 years ago.
• The present-day inhabitants of Ethiopia, Sudan
  and southern Africa carry the clearest signals of
  our earliest ancestry.
• fully modern, both in terms of his appearance and
  his brain function.

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• It is speculated that perhaps the San Bushmen of
  the Kalahari - give us a portrait of Adam and his
  fellow early humans.
• As you watch the DVD note the involvement of
  linguistics, anthropology, and molecular biology

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What does the Y chromosome tell us.

• All modern humans were living in Africa until at
  least 60,000 years ago, or 2000 generations.
• Route taken by homo sapiens as they left Africa
  and populated the Earth.
• It is a historical record.

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• Women also have a female history written in their
  mitochondrial DNA, showing the path to Eve around
  150,000 years ago.
• Mitochondrial signal provides less resolution for
  studies of population history than the Y.

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• Our Adam and Eve weren't the only people alive at
  the time, just the lucky ones who left
  descendants down to the present day.
• But it is nice to know that we arrive at the
  same general conclusion we're all related.

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• So what does our DNA tell us?
• Our differences are related to environment and
  natural selection.
• As you watch
• What are the differences between race, ethnicity,
  and culture?
• How would you define yourself?
• Note data from many sources.