Tag Archive for 'Y-chromosomal Adam'

A Neanderthal father and his daughter. Image credit: Tom Bjorklund.

Ancient Genomes Provide Insights into Social Organization of Neanderthals

Oct 19, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleoanthropologists have explored the social organization of Neanderthals using ancient nuclear, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA data from the remains...

Creation of Adam, detail. By Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1510.

Y-Chromosomal Adam Lived 208,300 Years Ago, Says New Study

Jan 23, 2014 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the European Journal of Human Genetics, our most recent common ancestor – the so-called Y-chromosomal Adam –...

Biblical Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by the Austrian painter Wenzel Peter

Mitochondrial Eve and Adam Could Have Met Between 148 – 120 Thousand Years Ago

Aug 2, 2013 by News Staff

Stanford researchers claim that our most recent common ancestors, known as mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam, roughly overlapped during evolutionary...