Adam and Eve Chromosomes? Part1 of 2

Aaron Custance BSc (Biochem), shares a US patent as the co-inventor of a genetic analysis ‘Hybridization’ technology, and is an independent science and technology researcher. He asks how it is that the human species with 46 chromosomes, became a distinct from our common ape-like ancestors; who had 48. Due to the apparent unlikelihood of two identical chromosomal aberrations (telomere-telomere fusions) occurring at the same time and place in ancient history, and the unlikelihood of sexually viable individuals resulting (and going on to produce the entire human race…), he asks if anyone has any information concerning the mechanics and probabilities of these events. Do we really all stem from two individuals; is chromosome 2 our ‘Adam and Eve Chromosome’? If this is true for us, then is it also true for the speciation of all other animals?

4 Responses to Adam and Eve Chromosomes? Part1 of 2

  1. KnowThyself24

    brilliant!!..

  2. Mdebacle

    Per wikipedia article chimpamzee_genome_project:

    “At the site of fusion, there are approximately 150,000 base pairs of sequence not found in chimpanzee chromosomes 2A and 2B. Additional linked copies of the PGML/FOXD/CBWD genes exist elsewhere in the HUMAN genome, particularly near the p end of chromosome 9. .. a copy of these genes added to the end of the ancestral 2A or 2B PRIOR to the fusion event”

    Our first 2 ancestors were quite human, created with 48, re-designed with 46.

  3. roaringwaterbay

    if you are looking for Phds, why don’t you try some university campus instead of youboob. by the way, what’s the point of this video?

  4. MrRazputain

    Well there must of been one hell of a lot of them mutations because even producing a child with these they need more of the same or similar to mate with.

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