Fun Anecdotes in Genetics

17/03/2020 11 min Temporada 1 Episodio 5
Fun Anecdotes in Genetics

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Location: Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater, Morrison, Colorado
Thomas Jefferson has children by his slave Sally Hemmings, historical uncertainty, Genghis Khan leaves an enduring genetic legacy, African Y chromosomes in old England, Levi and the Cohanim, the Jewish Lemba of southern Africa.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Y chromosome belongs to a rare European lineage
The genetic legacy of the Mongols
Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy
Extended Y chromosome haplotypes resolve multiple and unique lineages of the Jewish priesthood
Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”
Intro Music by Xihcsr
Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo