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'''Eurasian Adam''' (also known as Australian/Eurasian Adam<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=zdeWdF_NQhEC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187 Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis], By Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, [[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza]], 2007, ISBN 1405150890, page 187</ref>) is the name researchers have given to the man who is defined as the common ancestor of all non-African people living today. Eurasian Adam is defined by a single [[mutation]]: M168.<ref name="Johnson">[http://books.google.com/books?id=bmHe2MU4pycC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100 Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes], by Norman A. Johnson, 2007, ISBN 0195306759, 9780195306750</ref> According to current research, he was an African man<ref name=Karafet>Karafet et al. (2008), [http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/abstract/gr.7172008v1 New Binary Polymorphisms Reshape and Increase Resolution of the Human Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup Tree], Genome Research, DOI: 10.1101/gr.7172008</ref> whose descendants [[Early human migrations|migrated out of Africa]] and became the only lineage to survive away from Africa.<ref>definition from [[The Genographic Project]]</ref> He was [[Haplogroup CT (Y-DNA)|Haplogroup CT]] (formerly Haplogroup CR).
'''Eurasian Adam''' (also known as Australian/Eurasian Adam<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=zdeWdF_NQhEC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187 Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis], By Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, [[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza]], 2007, ISBN 1405150890, page 187</ref>) is the name researchers have given to the man who is defined as the common ancestor of all non-African people living today. Eurasian Adam is defined by a single [[mutation]]: M168.<ref name="Johnson">[http://books.google.com/books?id=bmHe2MU4pycC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100 Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes], by Norman A. Johnson, 2007, ISBN 0195306759, 9780195306750</ref> According to current research, he was an African man<ref name=Karafet>Karafet et al. (2008), [http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/abstract/gr.7172008v1 New Binary Polymorphisms Reshape and Increase Resolution of the Human Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup Tree], Genome Research, DOI: 10.1101/gr.7172008</ref> whose descendants [[Early human migrations|migrated out of Africa]] and became the only lineage to survive away from Africa.<ref>definition from [[The Genographic Project]]</ref> He was [[Haplogroup CT (Y-DNA)|Haplogroup CT]] (formerly Haplogroup CR).


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Eurasian Adam (also known as Australian/Eurasian Adam[1]) is the name researchers have given to the man who is defined as the common ancestor of all non-African people living today. Eurasian Adam is defined by a single mutation: M168.[2] According to current research, he was an African man[3] whose descendants migrated out of Africa and became the only lineage to survive away from Africa.[4] He was Haplogroup CT (formerly Haplogroup CR).

Eurasian Eve would likewise be the woman who gave rise to all women living outside Africa, but this term is used less frequently.[5] She was Haplogroup L3.[2]

Place in human timeline

Eurasian Adam is named such because he is the "original man" of his particular genetic line; his name is not meant to imply a correspondence with Biblical Adam. Eurasian Adam is a descendant of Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal human most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living men.

Eurasian Adam lived more recently than Mitochondrial Eve (also known as African Eve).

See also

References

  1. ^ Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, By Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, 2007, ISBN 1405150890, page 187
  2. ^ a b Darwinian Detectives: Revealing the Natural History of Genes and Genomes, by Norman A. Johnson, 2007, ISBN 0195306759, 9780195306750
  3. ^ Karafet et al. (2008), New Binary Polymorphisms Reshape and Increase Resolution of the Human Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup Tree, Genome Research, DOI: 10.1101/gr.7172008
  4. ^ definition from The Genographic Project
  5. ^ Ronald Alan Fonda uses the term in plural in Plural Lineages in Human - mtDNA Genome to refute the theory of African Eve


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