Pensioner discovers he is the direct descendant of EVE, the first woman
Published: 2013 February 02 19:39:24 (3770 Views)
A British pensioner got a shock when he discovered he was directly related to Eve.
DNA tests found Ian Kinnaird’s family tree went all the way back to the world’s first woman who lived 190,000 years ago.
While most struggle to delve beyond our great grandfathers in ancestry research, the 72-year-old traced his all the way back to the beginning of humanity.
Ian said: “This is a real gobsmacker. I have led an unremarkable life until now.”
He has a genetic marker, L1B1, that can be followed back to an ancient African lineage that has never before been found in Western Europe.
The research team who did the tests – Britain’s DNA – said it made Ian “the grandson of a black Eve”.
The retired lecturer, of Halkirk, near John O’Groats, added: “I seem to carry a gene from West Africa that arrived through the slave trade.”
St Andrews University’s rector and historian Alistair Moffat carried out the study with Edinburgh geneticist James Wilson.
Mr Moffat said: “It is an astonishing result and means Ian could have been in the Garden of Eden.
"It is further proof that even white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are descended from a black Eve, the mother of us all.
“This lineage appears in Senegal, but has never been seen in northwest Europe.”
Ian has mitochondrial DNA which is passed through the female side, is 30,000 years old and only two genetic mutations removed from the first “black Eve”.
Most people are 200 mutations removed.
- Mirror
DNA tests found Ian Kinnaird’s family tree went all the way back to the world’s first woman who lived 190,000 years ago.
While most struggle to delve beyond our great grandfathers in ancestry research, the 72-year-old traced his all the way back to the beginning of humanity.
Ian said: “This is a real gobsmacker. I have led an unremarkable life until now.”
He has a genetic marker, L1B1, that can be followed back to an ancient African lineage that has never before been found in Western Europe.
The research team who did the tests – Britain’s DNA – said it made Ian “the grandson of a black Eve”.
The retired lecturer, of Halkirk, near John O’Groats, added: “I seem to carry a gene from West Africa that arrived through the slave trade.”
St Andrews University’s rector and historian Alistair Moffat carried out the study with Edinburgh geneticist James Wilson.
Mr Moffat said: “It is an astonishing result and means Ian could have been in the Garden of Eden.
"It is further proof that even white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are descended from a black Eve, the mother of us all.
“This lineage appears in Senegal, but has never been seen in northwest Europe.”
Ian has mitochondrial DNA which is passed through the female side, is 30,000 years old and only two genetic mutations removed from the first “black Eve”.
Most people are 200 mutations removed.
- Mirror
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2013 February 02 20:57:48
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