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  • A person who looks to his faith as a means of understanding universal truths might make a connection between Heimdall and the Y-chromosomal Adam the patrilineal anscestor of every human on Earth, who, of course, was from AFRICA.

    Idris Elba Joins the Cast of Thor | /Film 2009

  • We show that sharing a surname significantly elevates the probability of sharing a Y-chromosomal haplotype and that this probability increases as surname frequency decreases.

    Study Confirms What Everyone Knows 2006

  • In the journal article, the researchers wrote that the work “underscores the effectiveness of Y-chromosomal variability” in tracing human migrations.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • In the present study, 926 Lebanese men were typed with Y-chromosomal SNP and STR markers, and unusually, male genetic variation within Lebanon was found to be more strongly structured by religious affiliation than by geography.

    Sunday, August 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Scientists have similarly traced the ancestry of the Y chromosome such that statistically all living human males are descendants of at most a dozen or so men from perhaps 50,000 years ago, or possibly a Y-chromosomal Adam from about 60,000 years ago.

    The Purpose of Life Stephen D. Covey 2008

  • In the present study, 926 Lebanese men were typed with Y-chromosomal SNP and STR markers, and unusually, male genetic variation within Lebanon was found to be more strongly structured by religious affiliation than by geography.

    Sunday, August 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • In the journal article, the researchers wrote that the work “underscores the effectiveness of Y-chromosomal variability” in tracing human migrations.

    Oh Those Randy Phoenicians! Jan 2008

  • In fact, the identity of Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam can vary from moment to moment, as individual humans die or bear offspring, slightly changing the shape of the genealogical tree.

    Let's Talk Junk (Again). - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • These two people are simply the last female that is a common ancestor of all humans (Mitochondrial Eve), and the last male that is a common ancestor of all men (Y-chromosomal Adam).

    Let's Talk Junk (Again). - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • We can also imagine tracing back to Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam — our most recent common ancestors through purely matrilineal and patrilineal lines, respectively.

    Mitochondrial Eve and you Sean 2006

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