FOUND; ADAM, Our origin Adam Through Genetics

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

Modern man's Adam discovery 

It's been said for some time now that mankind originated in Africa.  NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC sponsored research which DR. SPENCER WELLS, leading population geneticist,  led and discover Adam along with pertinent information about him.  This was a modern man, capable of thinking and creating art work in his caves.   

I note that this was pronounced in the Torah in Genesis, and now in science.  Amazing!                  

Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969) is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and is the founder and executive director of personal genomics nonprofit The Insitome Institute.  

It may be hard to visualize that Wells' deep ancestors were from Africa, and waves have left this continent  in different eras; with humans ending in northern climates losing their melatonin in order for the sun to deliver the much needed vitamin D to them.  

Wells followed the Y haplogroup of men, a gene that also decides if a baby is to be a male or female, and in this case with Y-a male.  Your father had it, and he got it from his father, and his father got it from his father, etc, back thousands of years that scientists can see today in this tag showing who made us.  Today, scientists have found  a few different lines of males and have named them like E, Q, R, etc;  Spenser's research finally ended with a man he named M168, who lived about 60,000 years ago; and that's a long long time ago.  Abraham, we figure, was born in about 1948 BCE which would be about 4,000 years ago.  

Dr. Wells actually went to all the sites in the world and tested the population.  He states that all men genetically are 99.9% identical.    An interesting part of his story was that he was testing the population of men on an island off Africa and all the men had the same Y haplogroup as all men in the rest of the world except one man, and this man was carrying the M168.  He was the kingpin that Spencer was looking for.  

We customers of Genealogy companies will not see DM9 or M168 in our reports as this is deep genetics.  It's for the geneticists' job to work on our deep ancestors that go beyond our understanding, I figure, though I do belong to GED Match, genesis now, and have used their tools to analyze my deep dna.  This additional site makes genealogy all the more exciting to explore.  I love it all.  

Most of us have heard about the history of Ghengis Khan who fathered thousands of Mongolian men.  Spenser found a group of men in California who met together and he spoke with them.  Yes, they all figured that they were descendants of Khan.  Spencer tested them and found only two were actual descendants.  

Wells is renowned for his logistically complex sample-collecting expeditions in remote parts of the world. EurAsia98, which in 1998 took him and his team from London to the Altai Mountains on the Mongolian border, via an overland route through the Caucasus, Iran and the -stans of Central Asia, was sponsored by Land Rover. In 2005 he led a team of Genographic scientists on the first modern expedition to the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad, and in 2006 he led a team to the Wakhan Corridor on the Tajik-Afghan border. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries.  He should be given extra cudos because these areas were probably dangerous to travelers, especially in the Tajik-Afghan border.  

All this can be found on youtube.  I suggest you use this tool to find out more if interested.  

Resource: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Wells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28uO1TRHX4