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From: "Clay Daniels" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Mutation =Time and Tree Roots
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:20:59 -0600
References: <012301cbbf1e$546d3b80$c2482dae@Ken1><DC477046BCBB45FE8E55EC7BB573B2B2@YOURC7CB43EF61><003001cbbfc3$c8913ac0$c2482dae@Ken1>

Thanks, Ken

This pretty much confirms what info I have gleaned from you and all the
other folks on this list. One reason I keep monitoring this very busy and
sometimes continuous list is that I keep learning things.

Clay

>>> The ancestral line of the I1 MRCA appears right now to go back in time
>>> about 16,000 years without any branches on it.
>>
>> So where does that leave us L21 folks? Are we still relegated to some
>> mere
>> 4000 years to MRCA?
>
> [[ That long apparently branchless ancestral line for the I1 MRCA does not
> alter the evidence that the I1 MRCA lived just 4500 years ago.
>
> I am not following developments as much in haplogroup R1b.... as closely
> as for haplogroup I, but L21 is downstream (toward the present) from S116,
> and much data establishes that S116 and U106 have a node just upstream
> from them which is about 4000 years old. So that would make any L21 clade
> younger than that. KN ]]

This thread:

• [DNA] Mutation =Time and Tree Roots by "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
  • Re: [DNA] Mutation =Time and Tree Roots by "Clay Daniels" <>
  • Re: [DNA] Mutation =Time and Tree Roots by "Ken Nordtvedt" <>

  • Re: [DNA] Mutation =Time and Tree Roots by "Clay Daniels" <>