Beyond the genome : did Adam meet Eve?.

Date:
2002
  • Audio

About this work

Description

What do our genes reveal about early history? By examining the Y chromosome, a family tree of males can be established. It can be good evidence of illegitimacy. An examination of the descendants of President Thomas Jefferson, from his possible affair with black slave Sally Hemmings, shows which men really did have Jefferson genes. Mark Thomas is mapping out the distribution of the y chromosome in English/Welsh/Irish populations, and has found a significant difference at the Welsh border, indicating the extent of Anglo-Saxon invasion. Peter Underhill and David Goldstein consider the common male ancestor in Africa. Women tend to move longer distances over time, so their chromosomes are more variable.

Publication/Creation

London : BBC Radio 4, 2002.

Physical description

1 sound cassette (30 min.)

Notes

Broadcast on 9th January 2002

Creator/production credits

Presented by Steve Jones
Prof. David Page (MIT); Mark Jobling (Leicester); John Hamilton Works, Jnr (Pres. Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society); Mark Thomas (UCL); Peter Underhill (Stanford); David Goldstein (UCL)

Copyright note

BBC Radio

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