M170

M89

M60

M91

M130

M96

M201

M168

M52

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yDNA Haplogroup I

25,000 BC

M89

M170About 25,000 years ago the M170 (haplogroup I) mutation occurred on the Y chromosome of a M89 man in the Near East. Some of his male descendants then entered Europe along a southern route to become the founders of the Upper Paleolithic Gravettian culture, the people famousfor the so-called “Venus” figurines.

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During the Last Glacial Maximum (18 - 14,000 BC) menof haplogroup I become genetically isolated in the Balkans. As the glaciers began to melt this population radiated to the north and west. Today, haplogroup I occurs in high frequencies in Scandinavia and the Balkans, with smaller numbers elsewhere. The northern variety of haplogroup I seems to have been common in Viking populations that conquered much of western Europe between AD 800 and 1000, and ….

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…the trail of these Viking genes may explainthe prehistoric ancestry of several of the I-men in our CSUEB sample, whose historic Europeanorigins are known.

RichardEngland

ArmandoSpain

GlennHolland

TomNorway

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A kiosk presentationprepared for the exhibition

March 2 to June 15, 2007

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