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Open Thread, 10/13/2013

Discover the fascinating insights on haplogroup A00, the oldest Y-chromosome lineage, and support groundbreaking research today!

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Six months back there was a lot of discussion of Y haplogroup A00, An African American Paternal Lineage Adds an Extremely Ancient Root to the Human Y Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree. Now there's an attempt by some of the researchers on that paper to raise money to collect more samples. Which of Cameroon's peoples have members of haplogroup A00?:

This is Round Two of our fundraising for our groundbreaking research on the world's earliest-branching Y-chromosome lineage, A00. Its origins lie in the earliest days of humanity's emergence, the exact time very much in debate, but almost surely over 200,000 years ago. We first discovered it in early 2012, when the results of the Perrys' Y-DNA tests were unlike anything seen before. We learned that they have matches among some of the diverse peoples of Southwest Cameroon. The new samples to be collected by Matthew in his homeland will allow us to ...

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