New Research Disputes Claim Of Ancient "Chromosomal Adam"

A new paper published in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) claims to prove that a previous paper authored by Michael F. Hammer and number of other geneticists is false because Hammer and his coauthors essentially cooked the books to show that the "Y chromosomal Adam" is extremely ancient and about twice as old as previously thought, and that this ancient “Adam” had intercourse with human “species.”

A new paper published in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) claims to prove that a previous paper authored by Michael F. Hammer and number of other geneticists is false because Hammer and his coauthors essentially cooked the books to show that the "Y chromosomal Adam" is extremely ancient and about twice as old as previously thought, and that this ancient “Adam” had intercourse with human “species.”

But those claims by Hammer, et al, have apparently been debunked by Eran Elhaik, Tatiana V Tatarinova, Anatole A Klyosov and Dan Graur in their new article in EJHG.

Hammer is the same person who published researched he claimed proved the existence of a single Kohain ancestor as well as a single Levite ancestor, both of whom he traced back to approximately the time of the Biblical Aharon and Moses. However, those claims were debunked: (Klyosov 2009; Tofanelli et al. 2009), using incorrect mutation rates(Klyosov 2009), data manipulation (Zoossmann-Diskin 2000; Zoossmann-Diskin et al. 2002; Zoossmann-Diskin 2006; Klyosov 2009), and other alleged attempts to manipulate the results(2005; Klyosov 2009), and Elhaik debunked Hammer's “Jewish genome” study last year in the Journal Nature.

Here's a video explaining the new paper's findings:

 

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Comments

[Yochanan Lavie]

The illustration to this article is false, because God is not wearing a black fedora, and Adam has no brit milah.

[Maskil]

The picture is accurate! Adam was a sheygetz and god doesn't wear a fedora/shtreimel, just his prophets (starting from Shem, Ever, and Avraham).

The inaccuracy is only in Adam's lack of הדרת פנים!

[jancsibacsi]

Maskil---In ADAMS TIME THERE WERE NO SKUTZIM SO COULDNT OF BEEN A SHEYGETZ NU VUS ZUDSTE TZI DEM?:)

[shmuel]

I heard that when god created Adam she was still practising creation

[Maskil]

He was so totally a sheygetz; shkotzim were created before Adam, duh! Last I heard, he knocked up some Puerto Rican girl (Eva Vives, or something like that). Where do you think all the PRs came from?

[jancsibacsi]

Maskil---You dont have youre facts straight adam was the first skutzim were born after him until then all was well on the western front:) |

[Jake]

But I have already been born.

[Nigritude Ultramarine]

I was just telling my daughter the other day the צאנה וראינה says its all an allegory.